- Oh my god.
- Kids, kids, those aren't your toys.
They're to keep daddy asleep and awake.
(groaning)
(electricity crackling)
- (laughs)
- I'm gonna need him on my first shift tonight.
(beeping)
- Pulling the plug out,
the old running your friend over with a car prank,
and buying an ambulance.
What could possibly go wrong?
Get ready to laugh because today
we are back at it breaking down and reacting to
all of the hilarious medical scenes
and absurd injuries from one of your faves: "The Simpsons."
Alright, let's dive right in.
(clicking)
(crunching)
- Sir, we need to be cautious about this.
It's not healthy for a man
to double his weight within a day.
(beeping)
(gasps) Triple!
- (laughs) Eating hamburgers or fast food.
We do know it's not good for you.
There've been documentaries on this.
You know, that you've seen these shows where
people just eat fast food and yes,
they're so calorically dense
that there's so much calories to them
that you'll overeat your daily expenditure pretty fast.
(clicking)
- No!
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Oh, what the heck is that?
Missing Nuclear Inspectors.
(laughs)
So if you hang for a very long time,
you actually cause a significant amount of injuries
to the structures of the shoulder and the axilla.
Your brachial plexus, all the nerves to your arm
go through your armpit as well as the vessels.
So if you stretch those out,
you can cause neuropraxia, injury to those nerves.
- My heart, this could be my last moment on earth.
- Chest pain after eating.
Obviously, the thing we always worry about
is a cardiovascular event.
Are you having a heart attack?
Are you having angina?
Which is just a medical term for chest pain.
Are you having unstable angina?
There's a lot of things that overlap in the chest.
We check all of these major things
when somebody comes to the emergency department.
Our job is to rule out the scariest things.
Not all the time can we actually figure out what's going on.
We have a high suspicion for cardiac reasons,
then we potentially will actually
admit somebody to the hospital.
(clicking)
- Smithers, this means that
no one will mourn me when I'm gone.
My only legacy will be the extra radiation
in every drop of water on Earth.
- Oh my gosh.
Nice.
Okay, so now he's got tears that are radioactive.
Not sure if this is actually a real thing,
but I will say that in the hospital,
say we have people who deal with
x-rays in radiation a lot.
CT techs and X-ray techs,
they actually carry a monitor on them
to make sure that they don't get
too high of exposure to radiation.
If they start to get that way,
they need to step away from it.
- Don't give up, sir.
- No, I give up.
- Don't give.
(laughs)
- Seriously, I give up.
- He's not on anything that requires him to be connected.
Sadly, his assistant moved the bed a little bit
so he couldn't reach it.
That's actually a normal technique that we use.
Sometimes we'll have people who are very
confused trying to get out of bed.
We actually do the opposite where we lift
the head of the bed up a little bit,
but we also lift the legs up.
And very difficult to get out of that position.
You can still move around, but it's a very
safe way to just try to keep an individual in the bed.
(clicking)
- I told you Bernie to guard the bee.
- But why?
- Oh, you guys are pathetic.
No wonder Smithers made me head bee guy.
- Bees are fantastic for us.
They help with making honey for us.
You get it locally.
It's actually quite good for your system
because they're using the plants
and the flowers that are around where you live
and that's actually very good for you.
Bees and pollination and very good for the environment.
But people can potentially be allergic to bee stings.
(clicking)
(glass shattering)
Oh no.
- It's getting away.
(metal clanking)
- D'oh, the bee bit my bottom.
Now my bottom's big.
- Okay, so I don't know the context of the bee,
but if you're allergic to bee stings,
you know you carry an EpiPen around.
People will come into the emerge department,
status post a bee sting,
and have a huge range of symptoms
from just like a welt, to swelling,
to full body swelling, to hypotension.
Very scary.
If you have an allergy to bee stings
and you actually get one,
get the hospital asap 'cause things can move quickly.
We would give you steroids.
We'd give you H1 and H2 histamine type blockers.
We would also give you fluids and plus or minus epinephrine.
Typically we give epinephrine if there's anything
that could potentially compromise your life,
including your airway or your blood pressure
or cardiovascular output.
These are serious things.
(clicking)
- The brakes are shot, the engine's rusted,
the only thing that works is the siren.
(siren wailing)
- [Child Voice] (mimics siren wail) Bunny, bunny.
- (laughs) I could tell you as a healthcare professional,
the sound of an ambulance,
sometimes I hear it, sometimes I actually don't.
I hear it so often that I tune it out.
There's a reason why.
It's to get aware that there's an ambulance coming
besides the big huge rig that's in shiny lights.
(tires screeching)
- Guess what?
Your husband is now an ambulance driver.
Don't you need training for that?
- So you do need training
just to be able to drive the ambulance
because there's all different types
of buttons in there and what to do
and radios and how to actually speak
to somebody over a radio from the dispatch center.
Know where to go.
You need to know the area that you live in
or that you're dispatching from
to be able to get your houses quite quickly
or to places quite quickly.
Typically, ambulance drivers are also medically trained
'cause they have dual purposes
and a lot of these are actually truck type vehicles.
So actually might need an actually different license.
- Hey, I think it's cool.
I can defibrillate Lisa.
- Not if I pump your heart full of morphine first.
- Oh my gosh.
You definitely have to have a higher level of certification.
EMT intermediates as well as paramedics
have different ranges of medications
that they can actually give.
And in other countries, obviously,
there's different regulations.
- Those aren't your toys.
They're to keep daddy asleep and awake.
(groaning)
(electricity crackling)
- (laughs)
- I'm gonna need 'em on my first shift tonight.
- So those are the old school defibrillator paddles.
We use pads now.
But those are the paddles that actually have buttons.
Obviously, you just manually do it.
It's not gonna hurt you.
You just have make sure that there's a conducting gel.
It just has to do with conductivity.
Just like what we would use for ultrasound,
where you need the gel to be able to see your image.
Then, okay, you don't have willy-nilly needles
and syringes and meds ready to go like that.
There are meds ready to go
but you actually then have to either reattach it
to a specific needle to give medications like that.
- We're gonna fix it so you guys save the dean's life.
(engine growling)
- Should we correct for wind resistance?
- Possibly, what do you think?
- Whoa!
- Oh my...
- A lot of times people get hit by cars.
They can have a femur fracture
a tib fib fracture, open fractures, close fracture.
So, when we say somebody has an open fracture,
it means it actually popped through the skin.
It could be as small as a puncture hole
versus like no skin left.
- I'm really sorry for the running you over prank.
- Prank?
- And all those other pranks were my idea too.
I'm the one who should be expelled.
- Well, I'm touched by your honesty,
and who knows, perhaps I've been a bit of an ogre myself.
- Yes you have.
- How's this?
I'll readmit your friends
and we'll forget this whole silly incident ever occurred.
- Oh, Dean, this is what your new hip is going to look like.
(metal squeaking)
(laughs)
You're going to have to go easy on it.
- Oh my gosh.
So end up hitting an individual
and causing a hip fracture, but that's open fracture.
And then when you say it's a compound fracture,
in the media or you hear it,
it just means that we would call it
something called comminuted,
which it's just a lot of pieces, okay?
And then we describe it as either
overriding, angulated, displaced
all these different descriptions
we would use in our documentation.
You can have a significant amount of bleeding
with femur fractures as well as pelvic fractures.
So you do have to be aware of that,
because we have a lot of bone marrow
in those areas and a lot of major blood vessels
within the pelvis and around the femur,
so a lot of bleeding could happen,
Oh my gosh, "The Simpsons," it never fails.
There's always medical topics going on in this cartoon
and they're quite interesting.
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