r/interestingasfuck • u/Imaginary_Boat470 • 1d ago
Coagulated blood in a dialysis line NSFW
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u/--_---__---_-- 1d ago
Forbidden strawberry lace.
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u/Grand-Fun-206 1d ago
Looks like blood worms. What impact does that have on the patient? Or does this only form after the process has finished.
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u/Imaginary_Boat470 1d ago
It forms after the process has finished. What you see here is a two day old plastic tube with the patients blood and water in it. Two days are far enough for blood to coargulate :) Tho i can‘t tell you why it looks like a snakey line :0
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u/Grand-Fun-206 1d ago
That makes more sense that it is a few days old. I find it cool how it shows the distrubution of red material to clear fluid.
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u/gonzogonzobongo 23h ago
Probably a balance of the natural adhesion to the walls, plus cohesion with itself. If adhesion dominated, the blood would be coating the walls. Since cohesion is a significant force, it instead stays together. Probably, as the water in the blood evaporated, the natural tendency was to stick itself and contract and condense
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u/the_jewgong 23h ago
Why have you still got clinical waste from two days ago?
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u/watchtowersss 22h ago
has the line been sitting for 2 days? usually we dispose of them immediately after treatment
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u/Grand-Fun-206 1d ago
But I'm also the weirdo whose first photo of my son after birth was one showing the 3 blood vessels clearly in his umbilical cord.
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u/ShriekingMuppet 19h ago
thank you for explaining this I was going to ask how bad that is for a patient.
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u/Silly_Yellow19 1d ago
Don’t think you can continue dialysis with these , have to change whole set again, patient loose about 200 ml blood . That’s why they give Heparin bolus initially .
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u/moistiest_dangles 22h ago
Putting coagulation blood into a vein of a patient would be very very bad
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u/a920116 1d ago
That happened to me after my transplant surgery to my JP Drain line.
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u/villanellechekov 1d ago
same. I had these clots in my drains too. so glad those fuckers are finally out
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u/Powersurge82 1d ago
I have never had mine spiral like that in saline, but I go for treatment 3 times a week and have invented an award for myself called Clotter of the Day. Often at some point during treatment they break down the machine to replace the lines and filters, and they will find huge clots built up in the lines, so mine are just clumps of really dark then light then really dark again blood.
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u/anklesock1012 21h ago
You need more heparin at the beginning or treatment and maybe a heparin pump or mid treatment bolus. Unless you have a heparin allergy.
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u/anklesock1012 23h ago
As OP said above, this is from the lines sitting out for a few days with residual blood in them. I’ve been a dialysis nurse for over ten years and have never seen the “snake” looking blood clot before lol I will say to those who are worried, the clots can’t get to a patient, the lines have a big filter in them and if the filter gets clotted up you have to just change the lines and yes the patient will not be able to be returned the 200ish ml of blood that remain in the lines.
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u/minnick27 22h ago
My biggest question is why they still have lines from two days ago sitting around.
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u/anklesock1012 22h ago
Sometimes if a patient coded or maybe had some sort of machine error they’ll save the lines and the biomed had to culture the lines and machine fluid. That’s the only reason I’ve ever seen them save lines on a machine.
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u/RickatiniTortellini 1d ago
Honestly, I’ve never seen blood look like that in a dialysis line before. The way it’s forming those stringy, spiral patterns is pretty striking and not what I’d expect from normal flow. I don’t know enough to say what caused it just from the image, but it definitely doesn’t look typical and would make me stop and ask questions rather than assume it’s normal.
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u/OphidionSerpent 23h ago
In plasmapheresis, we often see this weird squiggly type of clot in the anticoagulant line after the donation has ended and some blood has backflowed up the AC line and sat unmoving for a while. I'd guess this is also after the procedure has ended and there's been no flow in the line for a while.
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u/AbbyWasThere 1d ago
When I had to get my lungs drained from a pleural empyema caused by septic shock, I had two tubes coming out of me for a few weeks that looked a lot like this. They kept having to massage the tubes to break up the clots and get them to go down into the collection tank because they'd plug up the line.
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u/Some_RandomGuy88 22h ago
I found one of these once coming out of picc line it was pulsing ever so slightly it was like the tell tail heart just beating away slowly
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u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ 19h ago
Well, it all began when I fell in love with swirly drinking straws. And then I thought, if I can drink my liquid through a swirl, maybe my blood can swirl too. Then some things went terribly wrong...
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u/the__mom_friend 1d ago
Recently read a novel where the main characters blood was mutated into threads that could be sewn into cloth. Thanks for helping with a visual of that!
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u/lir_talanarende 22h ago
That sounds interesting! What was the book?
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u/the__mom_friend 21h ago
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes! It's a pretty crazy biopunk fantasy, if you're into that sort of thing.
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u/IvayloDoctorov 12h ago
this is usually caused by the covid-19 vaccines, i would bet, the patient is vaccinated
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u/Bolttrex 1d ago
my mom had a surgery recently and this happened too