Emergency Room Experience

Several years ago, I received a very nasty abrasion to my leg. Due to my neglect, it became seriously infected. I got cellulitis. After several days, it became very red and swollen. I went to the emergency room and during the intake, the nurse checked my temperature by my ear. After being taken into a screened portion of the ER, a nurse came in and told me that she had to check my temperature. After telling her that it had previously been checked she told me that she had to check it rectally. It was very difficult to conceal my excitement. She inserted it and I had all I could do to keep from masturbating when she left the room. I do love rectal temps.

A rectal temp for cellulitis? Seems improbable to me. Was there some special circumstance? How old were you? Are you developmentally challenged?

Really, what difference does it make if your temperature is 101.2 or 101,7? Unless the ear reading was way out of wack, there wouldn't be a reason to repeat. If it was to be repeated, the likelihood is that it would be done orally.

This newbie has set off the alarm on my bull shit detector.

We welcome him anyway.

Welcome. Anyone sharp enough to find thie sacred place, will be accepted. We are also pretty critical when people bs sector goes off.Keep on posting, let's get to know you.

Supergo,

There has been a lot of BS lately!

saxydom,

Yes, welcome to zity. Do let us get to know you. This is an incredible place! None other is like zity.

Andie

Geeze gang! Since when did WE at zity start becoming so openly critical? I thought we left that for Voy Forums! Let people post whatever they want and let´s not start playing judge and jury. If you like that style, go to Voy Forums. I always felt we were above that style and I´m seeing it more and more lately. If you doubt what someone posts, just move to another post. We wind up with more criticism about some posts lately than comments and sharing, and I for one, find it rather annoying.

As far as the rectal temp in the ER, could be nothing more than policy that 101 or above ¨x¨depending on facility policy gets verified with core/rectal temp. Simple.

I'm sorry but I just dislike seeing distortions of the truth in what is supposed to be a real story. Rectal temps are reserved for babies and the unconscious in a real emergency department.

I'm sorry but I just dislike seeing distortions of the truth in what is supposed to be a real story.

Here, here!

Get the popcorn in, sit back and enjoy the thread

As someone who has had cellulitis sadly a few times i will say this much an accurate temp is needed to gauge infection. Since the er i go to uses a oral one from the start i have never had it verified another way. However those in the medical field know a ear thermometer at times can be inaccurate. I agree i would expect a oral one to be used to verify not rectal but i am not calling his post straight out bullshit as it is possible although not very likely.

In fact an accurate temp is not needed to diagnose cellulitis. Only a good history and physical exam is. The physical exam is totally diagnostic.

In my experience, uber-accurate temperatures are unnecessary in the vast majority of cases. Afebrile, febrile or hypothermic are enough until you reach the extremes. The treatment for 102.0 or 102.5 is exactly the same. It's the life threatening extremes that need detailed monitoring. The other cases that need close monitoring are people who, by age, are at risk of being unable to maintain their body temperature - infants and the elderly.

If you were going to ever receive a rectal temp., it would most likely take place only in the ER, and under extreme circumstances..i.e., hypothermia, babies, etc. However, I agree that zity.biz is a great site, and has plenty of variety, and international influence. Voy forums, started out on the right track, and became saturated by all kinds of trolls. That being said, there are still some worthy posts there as well. You are going to find very limited information on the subject of rectal temps., because they're almost extinct, and probably never had much popularity. Most people in there 20's don't even know about them, and the folks who remember them, won't be around in 30 years from now. Any rt story is entertaining. Whether they reflect true and accurate experiences is a different story. They still have value.

Jds it's like pulses. It's fast ,slow, irregular or not there.

Jds it's like pulses. It's fast ,slow, irregular or irregular or not there.

And the person with chest pain needs closer monitoring than the one with abdominal pain...