shoshanaApr2013
Removing your rings before surgery without damage
Feb 03, 2014
I read a post today about from a fellow OH'er who had to cut off her rings last night as she was having surgery today.
I went into the surgery registration still wearing one of my rings. It's a ring my mother gave me and I'm irrationally paranoid about taking it off (it's just a simple metal ring with no stones). I ended up taking it off but was told that they could tape over it for the surgery (they taped over an earring I have in my upper ear that's really difficult to remove and replace).
I'm sure they wouldn't want to be taping up a hand full of rings, and different hospitals probably have different and stricter policies, so here's a link to a trick used in ERs and by paramedics to get rings off swollen fingers without cutting or damaging the rings. I hope this saves someone a trip to the jewellers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxoAbK5Pc6w.
P.S. You can buy the same sort of elastic in craft and sewing stores if you don't have an O2 mask floating around your house!!!
Please note: This website may turn the “=” and “D” of the link into a smiley face, so here's the link with spaces between them to avoid this from happening. Remove the spaces between the “v = D x” for the link to work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = D xoAbK5Pc6w
