Thanks for joining us for foreign body removal we don't know what's going to
happen here my friend Gary came in says that he got a what in it?
"It's a Pyracantha spine"
Pyracantha spine
"Or thorn, there we go thorn." Pyracantha thorn has been in there for how long?
"Three weeks." and you can actually feel it if you push on it?
But no pus is coming out.
"Nothing's coming out." All right let's get started.
The purpose of the iodine, betadine is to
kill off any bad stuff.
I'm going to give you some anesthetic
even though you didn't want any.
It's for me, it's not for you.
"You're just going to numb the area?"
Yea
That way I can do just absolutely anything-
"Anything you want."
Digging, pushing, pulling, extracting
Just go across like that.
Well what do you know.
We got some pus.
So because the pus it is an abscess
which we are going to drain
Ok it may be my imagination but I think I saw something black in there.
Can you guys hear that?
Sounds like I'm on something doesn't it?
"I can feel it now."
"I feel you pulling on it."
"I was going to cut it open myself and then get one of
those old snakebite kits that has the suckers on it put it on there and see
if I could pull it out."
That reminds me of a joke the...
the punch line of which is: she says you're gonna die.
yeah you heard that one
Yeah I'm not going to say it on the video.
He says you're going to die
We checked your tetanus status and found that your tetanus shot is up to date
so we don't have to give you a tetanus shot.
I hope you're in because it's finally coming
You were right Gary!
I am so sorry I ever doubted you
"That's about three-eighths of an inch long."
That is!
That is about...1.2 centimeters.
Many people may ask the question of well
wouldn't you use antibiotics for this because there's something foreign in the
skin and there was pus so there was some infection started, or at least some reaction
to this foreign material in the skin and the answer is no we won't put any antibiotics on
because we got the cause out and it's been able to drain.
If there is a sign of infection if Gary calls up and says that he sees redness or more pus coming out or
fever or red streaks up the arm we will call in some antibiotics but unless that
happens we have no expectation that there's going to be any more problem here.
It should just heal up.
That made my weekend I'll tell you that.
Alright
Thanks for joining us, that was one cool extraction.
Thanks again Gary for for bringing that in for us.
Dr. Vaughan at the Auburn Medical Group if you guys want to learn more about procedures like this just click
on some of our other videos and if you have comments or questions put them in the
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Until next time this is Dr. Mark Vaughan telling you to stay in good health!
Yea! Yea thats cool!
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