When removing ruined meat from a infected fluid wound, why put the scraps on the patient's arm?

In My Humble Opinion
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The pus explosion starts at around 4:35 if anyone cares.

I enjoy these at home surgery videos. I’ve seen some pretty bad abscess videos where they remove what almost appears to be a soccer ball worth of pus. However it was liquid with that guy.

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The technical term is packing strips, but every nurse I know refers to it as packing tape, so there’s that. To me, it looked like packing that had been left in for a while, as in the patient did not return to get it changed out and it had degraded.

As for professional looking surroundings, all I can say is white tile and electric lights do not equal a hospital. I saw piles of laundry on the floor, the patient is lying on a home-type bed, and the “doctor” isn’t even wearing gloves.

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This. And I believe someone found a reference that it was a tattoo over a cyst with the infection in the cyst itself. Having had something like that, although not that extreme and not involving a tattoo, I buy it.

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I’ve always called it Iodoform or Iodoform gauze. Must be a regionalism.

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Just watched the video. Poor guy. Ugh. Needs some antibiotics ASAP.

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OK, so a couple of things here:
[ul]
[li]What’s pictured in this video is a cyst being expressed (squeezed)[/li][li]A cyst has a fibrous capsule filled with pus[/li][li]The ‘meat’ packing is the fibrous capsule being torn out in bits[/li][li]Proper technique is to pull the capsule in one big piece if at all possible, to be certain whether it’s all removed[/li][li]The pink ‘goop’ is mostly pus, colored with some red blood[/li][li]The brownish looking fluid coming out is pus[/li][li]A real doctor or nurse would use scissors and a hemostat, not a pair of… um… toeneail clippers, it appears?[/li][li]A real doctor or nurse would absoutely not do this with their bare hands, or leave the bits lying around on the patient’s skin.[/li][li]No, you’re not going to die from losing a few teaspoonsful of blood. Losing a pint is when it starts to be a big deal.[/li][/ul]

If you watch a few cyst squeezing videos on YouTube, there are numerous samples of real dermatologists using gloves, proper equipment, and extracting the capsule in one or two large pieces, not 20 scraps.

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There’s one DIY video out there where one of the bystanders

observes that the expressed material looks like cottage cheese, and eats a chunk of it to find out if it tastes like it too, then runs to the bathroom retching.

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Have to say there is something oddly satisfying seeing the video