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It just, you can use more sedation.
They can monitor the airway, make the patient more relaxed.
There are anal dilators.
It's like a speculum.
I've also used an actual speculum.
So we're all rolling in at like 5 a.m.
for our shift.
And we hear Katie on the phone calling in this console like, hey, I've got this guy in the ED.
He's got a pair stuck in his rectum.
I've done everything I can.
Like, I can't get this pair out.
The attending has...
a full day of cases.
So he's like, okay, I'll call the OR, see when they can add it on.
It's not an emergent case, but it needs to be done.
So they added on after his second case, the guy gets prepped and is taken to the OR.
So he goes on his way.
This is where I come into the story.
So I was in the OR, drop my patient off in PACU, the recovery unit,
And I head over to the OR board, see what's going on, see what other cases have been added.