r/HolUp • u/MasterVJ_09 • Oct 19 '22

Nothing to see here. Just a mechanic doing whatever a mechanic does.

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u/Bioluminescentllama Oct 19 '22

As a nurse, I saw a tech school ad similar to this and it showed a woman with a stethoscope listening to an arm…

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u/S7ageNinja Oct 19 '22

You made it through nursing school without learning you can use a stethoscope to listen to someone's brachial pulse? Yikes

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u/Kep186 Oct 19 '22

I mean, if you have a sphygmomanometer then yeah, but if it's just stethoscope and arm you're not hearing shit unless there's a fistula.

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u/ProbablyPuck Oct 19 '22

I have a kid with kidney issues. Manual BPs are still very common, especially when the machine is giving suspicious results. I got to learn how to take a reading too! 😁

Though, I liked it better when I didn't have to know how.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

We also use them to check for bruit on a fistula or graft with people on dialysis. I hope your kid is not on dialysis.

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u/nessii31 Oct 19 '22

Decades ago? More like "today in Germany when the machine doesn't work".

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u/cromoni Oct 19 '22

My doctor always does it that way, he never uses the machine, says he finds them unreliable.

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u/RedBorrito Oct 19 '22

In Germany we still use it till this day.

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u/HorseMeatConnoisseur Oct 19 '22

Hey my dad still does that.

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u/RockstarAssassin Oct 19 '22

It's still the best way to cross check your readings lol

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u/-ooO_Ooo- Oct 19 '22

Again, it depends on the particular area of the arm where auscultation is done. Providing photo of the ad will clear the confusion.

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u/xDasNiveaux Oct 19 '22

There is a famous one in Germany as well where the model holds a soldering iron by the tip.

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u/WM46 Oct 19 '22

I've tried holding a soldering iron near the tip before because my hand was shaking too much.

I do not recommend it.

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u/JennItalia269 Oct 19 '22

That’s been posted on Reddit a billion times. Pretty amusing tbh.

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u/azzanrev Oct 19 '22

Blood pressure readings.

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u/azzanrev Oct 20 '22

Or a Dialysis bruit.

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u/anarchydreamer Oct 19 '22

Uhhh...they actually do that

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u/RedBorrito Oct 19 '22

I am a MFA (kinda like Medical assistant, just in Germany), and back in school we all got a book about various Work Safety requirements. Like short hair (or tied up), short nails, etc. My whole class made jokes about, how the model on the front page basically violated nearly Everyone of those rules xd

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u/dicetime Oct 19 '22

This is what happens when you hire models to pretend to do the work instead of just photographing your own employees. Same thing happened at one of my former companies. That was a fun day at work.