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I’d have never guessed that, thanks for providing the right answer. How did you know this?
Further down the tread. I also had a bed ridden person in my home and it sure would have come in handy.
Nowadays, patients soak in diapers. It's a shame.
Bedpans are still used regularly... They just clean them differently (with a machine that looks like a dishwasher, rather than a urinal)
US RN here. We have plastic bedpans. Most nurses line them with the plastic chux pad to avoid having to wash them out. Or they just throw them in the garbage. Hospitals make so much garbage it’s terrible.
I was in urgent care recently for a split brow after my son fell. She gave me the two clamps, scissors, and tweezers they used because they were just gonna have to throw them out after one use.
Obviously medical waste can’t be taken home but I never realized how much stuff is one use only.
Just about everything gets thrown out. I’m a nurse and the amount of trash I make in a day of work is outrageous.
Same. I feel ridiculous diligently sorting my recyclables and composting when I probably generate a cubic yard of plastic waste every shift.
What’s crazy is how everything is packaged in a convenient plastic enclosure separately inside of a package of plastic just a tad bit bigger.
Humans are fallible and contaminated materials are just too much of a liability. It's cheaper to throw it all out than clean everything and deal with a .5% increase in lawsuits and patient deaths/poor outcomes.
We have so many treatments now patients are getting a absolute myriad of things all the time. One time use plastic pack is the way to go.
Yeah and something you would typically need one or two of comes in a package of 48 so the other 46 are no longer sterile and end up being thrown.
I am usually completely against single-use plastics and plastic containers, but that packaging usually keeps items sterile, which is actually providing a purpose (sort of).
In general, I do think medicine generates far too much waste though.
Single use became required once they figured out diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) aka Mad Cow Disease. It is an incurable fatal disease and caused by a Protein which can't be killed by sterilization. Once contaminated with CJD, reuse of sterilized instruments will transmit the disease to other patients. A few decades ago there was a dentist reusing sterilized instruments and he spread the fatal CJD to several patients before they figured out how it was happening.
If I remember right, That class of diseases are called Prion diseases. Basically they are not considered to be a living thing, just a self replicating protein. There’s one that deer get, the name of which I’m totally spacing at the moment. I think the only way you can destroy them is with hi temperature plasma.
Chronic Wasting Disease (cwd)
This is a TSE? I read it all started with meat packers feeding processed downer cattle to other cattle before slaughter.
Is there no other way to kill CJD?
It's caused by a prion, which is a mutated protein, it's not actually alive.
Burn it with fire, and by fire I mean like a MAPgas cylinder or ox-acetylene. I don’t remember the exact temperature, but you need thousands of degrees, enough to oxidize the protein, not just denature (they are misformed, and to my understanding form much stronger bonds than a balanced healthy protein).
Autoclaves don’t work. Sterilization techniques don’t work. Short of blasting it with a blowtorch using specialized gas idk what else will.
Always ask to keep those instruments, they will usually let you have them. I just used the forceps working on my car, and I use the scissors from a suture kit to trim my eyebrows.
It's hugely wasteful but I love when they do that for me when they are patching me up. They're good tools too. Not disposable quality.
Yep. I was hospitalized for a blood infection. They told me I could take home everything in the room since it had to be thrown away anyhow. I got a safety strap, two cushioned boots and all of the non-narcotic meds in the room.
I got the same years ago after getting some stitches. They were going to throw out the scissors and several hemostats/clamps, so I asked for them. The nurse at first said she needed to wash them, but then figured, "It's your own blood, it's not contagious to you." She said she couldn't give me the disposable scalpel, but I didn't really want that, anyway. It all went into an incinerator bag.
A lot of the instruments used for simple suturing in the ER are stainless steel but aren’t precision manufactured, i.e. lower quality. It’s quite involved to properly clean all of the grooves, hinges, etc., which has to be done before packaging and sterilizing them. So the majority of those (in the US at least) are one-time use.
I also suspected the pictures item was a bedpan washer. When I was a green nursing assistant back in the day, my hospital still used stainless steel bedpans, and there was a bedpan washer right next to the hopper in the dirty utility room.
I work in biotech. If you think that is bad, you should see the waste made by the labs researching and developing the medicines.
One time use plastic bed pan? So 4-8 plastic bed pans per day per pt.? Lord help us.
Nah we try to reuse them that’s why we put a liner in it. Sometimes though they get crushed beyond reuse because Americans have a propensity towards obesity.
Edit to add: urine is easily rinsed out. Most people don’t move their bowels 4-8 times a day if they do they have diarrhea and may have a fecal containment system. This is too much for plumbing sub. and for my day off 😛
It's ok to say 'we have lots of fat Americans who crush the bed pans with their ass'
Is 4 times a lot? Asking for a friend..
I dunno. We all need to know this whether we're yhe shitter or shittee mopping up.
Fecal containment system. Time to learn to play metal, already got the band name 😃
Who tf shits 4-8 times a day?
I can get up to 4 pretty regularly. It sucks having IBS symptoms and when you gotta go, you have to go
Peeeeeeeeee
who tf only shits and never urinates?
Cows
Who the f*** only s**** and never pees? How about dialysis patients? Your big dummy. I haven't pissed in over 10 years
Who tf shits and urinates 4-8 times a day?
(Okay okay 4 is reasonable)
Is it bad to poop 3 or 4 times a day?
Kind of. Rule of thumb for normal is between once every 2 days and twice a day. But I guess if you’re in a hospital, something’s not normal.
4 times is about normal for me sadly. I have to launch a torpedo after i eat. If i eat dairy without lactaid im done for and my entire life is on the toliet. I envy those who can go once a day or 2x per 3 or 4 days
Amazing how cavalier you can be when you charge $24 for a Tylenol!
in our country (not us) hospitals use metal ones and a pan washer
Meiko and Arjo Tornados at our site. Emergency uses cardboard bed containers which are them pulped in a macerator. This old unit wouldn’t pass today as it’s not sterilizing the pan with heat.
It was easier when we could just give them a nice lobotomy or some electro shock therapy. Everyone's just so soft these days.
My mom has been a nurse for nigh on 40 years, I showed her and she knew instantly.
Nurses know their shit! My wife’s been an R.N. for 45 years.
What else could it be?
I thought it was a funky urinal tbh
In some sense you were correct. Just a lot more steps and a bed are involved.
Man I thought it was a urinal lid to stop piss water flying around the bathroom after a flush.
It is just that.
My code book makes more sense now
Can you explain how it’s used? Does the silver part come down and the bed pan goes in?
yup
Foot press lever near the floor opens the door.
Correct. Have used these before
Bed pan washer.
I worked in an old asylum. There was one on every ward at the nurses station.
Wonderful place!
wonderful place!
I dont believe you.
Depends on their state of mind.
I’m to much of a loner, if I spend to much time with crazy people I start questioning if I’m the crazy one lol
I don’t either. It was hell on earth.
I actually worked in a mental health facility, not an asylum, but yea we definitely had our fun too.
It was usually “out of order”.
“out of order”
Like the milkshake machine.
That's such a horrible reference comparing a bed pan washer to a milk shake machine 😅🤢
I went for the first time in 20 years to McDonalds last week and it was some characters birthday month Grimace’s, so it was a nice milkshake meal special. I asked for this promotion and was instructed the milkshake machine was broken. I don’t even know why I bothered.
Always check on here first lol
I had to wash them by hand in a big sink. No PPE either. Mostly enamel ones, which are surprisingly easy to clean.
Somewhere out there in the wild is someone who'd pay boo koo bucks for that. Strange but true ..
I could see my dad being interested in buying that. He already has a bed pan collection 😂
Wtf?
The guy that started eBay knew he was on to something when one of the first sales (maybe the first, I don’t remember) was for a BROKEN laser pointer. He messaged the guy making sure he knew it was broken. The guy responded saying “I know, I collect broken laser pointers.” he thought if people will buy that, they will buy anything here, and the rest is history.
Boo koo?
Someone who has only ever heard beaucoup spoken verbally, instead of written down.
Mercí beaucoup
Mercy boo koo
You’re welcome
Took me decades to realize the activities book I got as a young child, titled “Beaucoup To Do” was pronounced “‘BooKoo’ To Do”. I always pronounced it “Boo-Cups,” and it always seemed off to me. Childhood innocence is fascinating sometimes! 😂
Although someone on a thread in that sub said Bookoo is NOLA spelling so it’s not entirely wrong https://www.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/comments/97ms4j/legit_it_was_supposed_to_be_beaucoup_bucks/
i think they meant to say poo poo bucks cause as stated elsewhere in the thread that's a bed pan washer.
My company used to make them for health care facilities. They were also steamed for disinfection. Plastic bed pans rendered them obselete.
Stupid question perhaps, but is that because plastic bed pans are just thrown out after use?
Yes
Thats a turd mail box if i ever seen one. Make sure you turn the ball valve up after use so the plumber knows to pick up your package
Don’t know why this isn’t upvoted more, I literally laughed out loud at this…. God damn if I had money you would get a award!!! But take my cheap ass upvote for now
“A turd mail box” im dying
I would assume it's for emptying bed pans.
Edit: they are listed for some good money https://legacyvintage.ca/Antique-Items-and-Vintage-Products/ic0344-vintage-medical-industry-bedpan-cleaner/
$1250!!!!!!!!
Interesting and historical, but who would be in the market for one? Like a new medical facility would probably be legally mandated to install something new.
The antique bed pan washer clubs go crazy over them.
Yeah.....it's like the holy Grail for them. Lol.
Bed pan cleaner
When you have really bad diarrhoea you can pull the metal case down and spray your shit into it and close it back up.
Looks a little small for the boss' office.
It's a chastity belt for the urinal. Don't fuck with the urinal!
Don’t fuck the urinal*
I believe it's an AERO-FLUSH
I love this type of content, because at the end of the day, being a plumbing back in the day was WAYYYYY FUCKING HARDER lol. Like could you imagine coming home after a trim out day at that asylum? Holy balls
Much love for the OGs before us
Like yea babe, work was good, ill have 30 beers now lmaooo
I agree with you man. I look up to the dead guys that built this industry. They definitely don’t get the credit they deserve. The way I loo at it, doctors couldn’t even have a job if it wasn’t for us
It is a Thunderbox cleaner, or Bedpan to you. One places the pan with its load in place, close the flap, and press the button, whoosh, and its power cleaned.
It's a combination urinal/toaster oven🤣
It’s a bedpan cleaner. I worked in an old hospital that still had these.
Eye washer...lmao
First clue that that's not an eye washer is you'd have to be on your knees to wash your eyes.
These are toilet pan cleaners or for lack of better words kind of like an autoclave
Yeah should have a foot pedal attached to the guide rod and had a hydraulic cylinder. Push down foot pedal insert dirty pan hit the valve no mess. I believe that was made by Amsco out of Canada.
It literally says Aero on it.... and the pedals there.
Aero flush was the bedpan washer model name but the manufacturer name is Amsco and didn’t click on the image to see the foot pedal.
Its a time machine made from a urinal.
The way I see it, if you’re going to build a Time Machine into a urinal, why not do it with some style.
Do you see this? That's the flush capacitor. It's what makes time travel possible
Invented by Doc Brown
I read this in full-on Lloyd!
That's where you resurrect Casper.
That's where they keep the ice cold for the bar 👍
The forbidden urinal
Nothing seems scarier than “an abandoned asylum”
The reason I love going to abandoned places is bc of the infrastructure. Mainly the plumbing and heating side
Google to the rescue! Bed pan washer.
Bed pan cleaner!
Bedpan disposal
Torlet
Turlet
I like turlets
The door to a secret dimension
This urinal has been booted by the local police. It was stolen
Zero gravity space Toilet
Forced induction two-stroke diesel urinal with runaway protection. The pipe on the left is a 200 shot of nitrous. If you stay on top of injector maintenance, these will run forever.
The crap trap
Bed pan washer
Waffle maker
Taint Bidet
Is this in Massachusetts? I work in an older mental health facility and these are in the water closets on the units!
A joke toilet, just for farts
It's where the bar gets its ice
We used those to rinse the drawsheets from the patients beds, as well.
Looks like an old bed pan washer.
No piss for you
Whatever it is, don’t let your pecker get caught when the door slams closed.
Seat folds down so you can crap in it
You stick your ass in there and take a big crap its a stand up toilet for people with bad knees
Appears to be a ball buster/dick whacker. Just stomp on the pedal! lol
It's the prototype for Latte Larry's
Did Larry David design this?
My first thought.😆
Clearly an aero flush..
Those are there so you can shit standing up
It's used to wash bed pans
Face washing station
Bwahahahaha
You flush your aeros in there.
Meant for disposing of bedpan waste
My dude, they’re selling these vintage pisspot cleaners for bank!
Honestly, I think it’s worth more than that. Imagine buying something like that today. I got faucets for customers that double that
I thoroughly enjoyed the witty responses to this conversation 😹
Ronco Step N Piss
It’s a bed pan cleaner
The Aeroflush 3000, extremely rare and BARELY used almost in antique condition. Let me just call a buddy of mine in to come take a look and then we will talk.
That’s the old Aero Flush
It's a urinal from Latte Larry's.
Forbidden espresso machine
It is a machine that you put a bed pan in and it blast all the shit away.
It’s a bedpan cleaner.
Wall shitter, with pedal operated seat
That's a ballsack washer for old codgers with low hanging saggy bollocks. You open the door chuck your nuts inside and use that wand to plumb your clods
An Aero-Flush. It says it right on the front of door.
Aero flush
Trans toilet
Yea it is pretty close to the urinal to be eye wash lol.
Hospitals still have similar devices. Basically a drain and a faucet for emptying/cleaning waste vessels. I haven’t seen one with a front door on it, usually they are just an open basin with a faucet; similar to a toilet with a faucet over it. The door is probably to keep down the smell, maybe prevent splashing.
Flush your aborted baby
Yooo that’s fucked it but I like the dark humor
You’re a dick for being like that. Reddit couldn’t exist if we had cum dumpsters like you
If you can't figure this out, you suck.
That is a towel steamer.
Beep beep beep Penis Detected beep beep…
I think it’s a barmitsfa cut your thinga ma bobber off thingy ma jig
Eye wash station?
It flushes using compressed air. The piss spray out the sides is a design feature.
It's probably an eye wash. You step on the lever, and the door opens, and the valve is actuated.
Early prototype of Larry David’s urinal
Aero Flush
Pee-trap
Baby washer
Whatcha got there is an Aero-Wash.
Happy to help.
It's where the bar gets its ice
Bed pan washer