Some of these especially the Mike one may be the last heart beats of a loved one, some people get the heart beats of loved ones as a remembrance piece for the ones they have lost
my friend just got “deadly peanut allergy” on his wrist lmao, he’s taken pretty seriously w it and had nurses actually say that’s kinda smart in a stupid way.
@@uni8514It’d be really useful, my friend has the same allergy to penicillin and kept having to tell doctors not to give her anything with penicillin or else…and yet she kept being prescribed penicillin 🤦 I hope your mom finds a way around this!
That’s smart! It reminds me of this tattoo show that I saw years ago where this elderly lady got an red ombré colored letter A tattooed under her collarbone. She lived jn an area that had a lot of earthquakes and was worried that if she died in one no one would be able to identify her. She also wanted an identifying detail that her loved ones could look for if need ever be.
It’s not that they think the tattoo itself will work. It’s that the tattoo makes the people CHECK if you have one. There are many many stories of people with a dnr that were revived by doctors who didn’t check or other people doing cpr in emergencies who are unaware. Obviously outside of a hospital you can really check if someone has a dnr but if I saw someone with that tattoo I wouldn’t do cpr plain and simple. In hospitals it’s a good fail safe to make sure doctors check before jumping to revive you.
I came here to say this. Exactly. When you get called out to someone coding, saving their life is the first response, not checking to see if they have a DNR card in their wallet. This gives them something they can't not see since they might miss medical bracelets in that situation. @RazzleMazzleTazzle
@@RazzleMazzleTazzle yes thank you for addition. The tattoo absolutely should make the staff double check, and therefore you should make sure your paperwork is completely up to date. Very good point about non-hospital situations though! In everyday life there is no duty to perform CPR unless you have a special duty of care towards the person (parent/child, lifeguard/swimmer, etc)
@@RazzleMazzleTazzleThis. My dad had a dnr and yet they tried for very long to bring him back, I wasnt there so I wasnt able to tell them. Thankfully he was gone, his life was horrible at best for the last year before his death.
My sister has a Tattoo of a medicly accurate heart on her right site of her torso. Because her heart is literaly on the right site. She has situs inversus totalis
I had a small pair of scissors and a "cut here" dash line under them tattooed on the skin which was about to be amputated from a panniculectomy. My whole medical team helped keep the surprise from my surgeon until day of and we collectively pranked him, MONTHS in the making. It was very small, and he absolutely loved it.
I don't remember the tumblr username but someone told a story that they had a shellfish allergy so they got a crab tattoo where the epipen was supposed to go so if they go into anaphylactic shock they could expose the tattoo and tell anyone with an epipen to "stab the crab"
IKR? Legally binding is important for both sides. Just imagine the fools sporting something similar as a joke. It's at best a reminder to go look for the proof.
So my uncle had gotten a biohazard tattoo on his arm after being diagnosed with HIV in the 90s. Because of his diagnosis, that was his very last tattoo he went and got. He had always been very open about discussing HIV with my sister and I and that the disease didn't define him. He was uncle Joey and he was no different than anyone else. It was only until later in life that i realized that there's a large group within that community that have a biohazard tattoo as a way of being open about their diagnosis.I really think you should highlight it and have discourse.
@Monroe15 People who have HIV are just as deserving of love just like you and me. My uncle was with someone in his final years and loved him dearly until the end. Like I said, my uncle was always open about his status. What their love was like behind closed doors is none of my business. The way his wife boosted his self-esteem and gave him purpose was what I saw firsthand, and I thankful they found a soul mate in one another. HIV in this day and age is a lot more manageable. It's no longer a death sentence for people. While it's still a touchy topic, I'd like for you to at least see that those who are diagnosed are still worthy of a human experience.
And I say this with of course just encouraging people to educate themselves on why they have the tattoo. We can't always make assumptions either. Some people are just dummy dumb dumbs who get a tattoo like this without knowing this history too.
@@Monroe15there's no reason not to date someone with a biohazard tattoo if they are open about their diagnosis. HIV is not a death sentence in developed countries in 2024, and it does not mean that someone doesn't deserve love. You can have HIV and still have a loving and healthy relationship with very minimal risk to your partner.
When my husband died I was given a ecg trace of his as I also have CHF I have many ecg print outs so my artist took parts from each to make one long trace it was a very sentimental and emotional tattoo Sometimes a tattoo can mean more than others would imagine ♥️
The tattoo isn’t supposed to be ‘legally binding’ it’s supposed to be a fail safe because of the sheer amount of people with a dnr that have been revived simply because the doctors forgot to check. If you see a tattoo like that you’re probably going to check lol.
I have a sound wave tattoo and the amount of times people have asked if its a heart beat...my go to response is "i sure hope not, they would probably be dying" 😂
Actually I read that the do not resuscitate one would not be legally upheld because of the argument that people might change their mind on tattoos and since its permanent they may have just not updated their tattoo to reflect their actual views at the time of whatever incident has them now in this situation where the tattoo is being debated.
you could get one with basic info like "check for my med bracelet" or "emergency contacts in my bag" kinda thing, only because people/hospital phone numbers change & stuff! i like the idea of a warning tatt but it'd have to be visible like on your arm & you'd probably still need to carry med info somewhere on yourself for better detail
I have a tattoo for my type-1 diabetes. 🤷♀️ I don't like weaing danging jewelry, so i think it's better than nothing. From what I've heard, medical alert tattoos are becoming more common and more medical professionals are being taught to look for them.
In the organisation I'm part of, no it isn't a legal document. We basically just have to continue as normal unless the patient has a piece of paper signed by a doctor
Idk about the guy shown in the video specifically, but maybe they got it as a backup of sorts so that the doctors would pause and go "hey does this patient have a DNR on file?" Just a thought
Nope, because you may have changed your mind since getting the tattoo. Though it will definitely make the doctor’s stop to see if you do have a real DNR in place
My oldest son’s dad had “place tag here” on his big toe a long time ago for the toe tag when you die. He figured he would give the coroner something to laugh at. He died last summer. My son and I were just talking about the tattoo a few months ago. It made us laugh. His dad was an amazing man/father and had a hell of a sense of humor.
I never even thought about medical tattoos, I suppose they could be useful for some people but some conditions are pretty complex. If my kid someday got a medical tattoo it would be something like half of a heart, O2=75>, and an irregular heart beat, I think it would confuse people more than anything lol. He has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (essentially only half a heart and it causes extremely low O2, as long as it over 75 he doesnt need oxygen) and he has an irregular heartbeat. I suppose he could just get HLHS tattood but we've met so many medical professionals that I've had to educate on his condition, i doubt that would be effective either. I think in his case it would be easier to just cary something in his wallet 😂
1. The first one is awful because you can't tell if it's binding or just an art piece. There have been cases where people did not know and it was a huge problem for the doctors and the hospital. 2. Those are obviously the last heartbeats of a lost loved one named Mike. How did he not get that?
I have a few of my EKG strips I’ve considered having tattooed somewhere. The most dramatic & clearest is from an ambulance ride several years ago where I was experiencing extreme tachycardia with brief episodes of Afib which began rapidly began transitioning into full Afib. So bc I live 30min from the nearest ER the dr advices the paramedic to perform a rapid cardioversion using the difibulator. Needless to say it hurt like heck & was terrifying…especially since before becoming disabled I was a paramedic/ER Trauma nurse. So I understood EXACTLY what the monitor was showing & EXACTLY what was going to happen. The part of the EKG I got the paramedic print out a copy of for me shows the erratic heart rate, the shock & then a normal sinus rhythm if slightly elevated at 115. But considering I fully understood everything going on & was completely awake when shocked…I think 115bpm is understandable.😅 Pretty sure the young paramedic’s heart rate was well above that since he had only been a paramedic for barely a year.😂 -Due to the fact there are multiple causes of my tachycardia plus other chronic issues/conditions drastically limiting the already limited treatment options for my chronic tachycardia that occasional gets dangerously out of control…I’ve had to have cardioversion on 12 separate occasions…both via medications & shock pads. More if you count the times cardioversion via medication didn’t work & I ended up requiring the shock pads or the 2 times it took being shocked twice to convince my heart to start behaving normally again. Even though I was fairly sedated those 2 times were extremely terrifying! Thankfully only 2 done by shock pads had to be done without sedation. The one in the ambulance I just described & once at walk-in urgent care clinic in a tiny rural town in Louisiana with the nearest ambulance over 20min away & then the nearest hospital that had an ER with a cardiologist present a 40+min drive after that. The urgent care doctor on call also worked shifts at one of the busy ERs at one of the major hospitals in New Orleans. So thankfully he knew what needed to be done & how to do it. Afterwards they loaded me into an air ambulance(medical helicopter)to transfer me to Tulane in New Orleans. Which by air didn’t take that long but due to the swamp lands between the small town we had been visiting relatives in & New Orleans it was over a hour drive in a non-emergency vehicle. Without realizing it I had become mild to moderately dehydrated and the temperature had gotten significantly higher than predicted & higher than is normal for late fall in that area. I already have serious chronically low BP as well as heat intolerance that can make it drop even further. Both dehydration & serious drops in my BP can be trigger for my chronic tachycardia to become dangerously rapid & possibly transition into dangerous &/or unstable rhythms. - Let me assure you…living with severe heat intolerance in the extreme southern US(less than 60 miles inland from the Gulf)where it is hot enough to cause me issues 8-10 months out of the year if I have to step outside for longer than a few minutes is beyond frustrating! As is my electric bill to keep my house cool enough I can actually move around without risk of heat making my BP drop & my body drop with it as it causes me to pass out. I have enough trouble passing out due to other factor affecting my heart rate &/or BP! Not to mention my hips, knees & ankles randomly causing me to test the hardness of the floor by dislocating thanks to severe Ehlers Danlos Syndrome…a genetic connective fissures disorder that worsens with agr…which is the ultimate root cause behind my BP & heart rate issues.😕😒
For anyone considering it in the UK - Tattoos, bracelets etc for DNAR are not recognised by any medical staff. Only a signed and witnessed medical or legal document is regarded as fact. Even this has to be dated within a fairly short timeframe, used to be 2 years, though this may now have changed.
i think a cool one is actually one my grandpa wanted: he had a ton of heart issues and thought it could be a cool thing to “document “ what happened with different beats or whatever( heart attack with a matching sequence n all)! sadly he never got the chance to get it due to passing but it’s one i’m interested in mimicking!
I got my heart rate tatted on mewhich is normal rhythm with a tachycardic rhythm in it as well as infinity sign in the middle for mental health. Im pretty positive its been done before but atleast i thought of it on my own and used my own heartbeat from an ekg
Thought this short will would be better not just the heart beats which are common. Tattoos I've seen are diabetic types, allergies, medical conditions. It definitely helps in an emergency
I've thought about getting "No MRI's" as I've got tons of metal in my spine & I'm terrorified no one will see the giant scar on my back before they try.
I don't know why but "and then your name is mike" fucking destroyed me, he says it like it's a medical condition. Like sir I'm so sorry it seems your name is Mike
Reminds me of something a bit unrelated, but i had a friend who recently passed away this winter just before Christmas, he got mixed up with the wrong drugs while in Vegas, stuff put him in a coma for a couple weeks, family decided to let him go when there were no signs of improvement, passed away Christmas morning, but one thing the doctors did for the parents, they recorded his heartbeat during the time he was alive and put it in one of those stuffed animals with the speaker in it, so no matter what, they could still hear when he was living
The second one would've been really cool, if the person wearing it were a Cardiologist, who was an extremely seasoned globe trotter, and the 'heart graph', was the skyline of their favorite city in the world.
I have a suspicion that the Mike tattoo wasnt a heartbeat but the oscillogram (the waves that show when recording an audio) of someone saying his name. There is a version of such that has the sharp peaks that the tattoo has.
I plan on getting my EKG tattooed when my heart condition was active (I had surgery) because I have WPW (Wolff Parkinson White) that gave me a pretty abnormal heartbeat and serious SVT episodes. It of course had a big effect on me in many ways and it’ll always be a part of who I am now.
I’ve heard of soldiers getting their information tattooed before, basically name and D.O.B on their chest in case their body is too dismembered or disfigured to identify and usually blood type in case their dog tags are too hard for the medics to read (although I think most medics use 0-)
Eventually I want a heartbeat tattoo somewhere on my, preferably somewhere around my thumb-to symbolize the fact both my parents met working in the medical field. Maybe even a replica of my dad’s Rod of Asclepius tattoo.
Remember the “Do not resuscitate” tattoo is not legally binding, it actually has caused problems to doctors who aren’t sure what to do, if you have an actual DNR order be sure to include any relevant information so the hospital can find it and respect your wishes.
The DNR one got me thinking. What if you had a visible (easily seen) tattoo stating DNR form with a QR code for a digital copy underneath it? Could save the frantic searching for paperwork and save from a lawsuit depending on how the person with said DNR is.
There was a boy in my highschool who came back from turkey at about 13/14 with his medical bracelet tattooed on him because he kept losing the actual bracelet and people thought he was drunk and didn’t realise she needed insulin.
Found out after 3 cardiac arrests at the ripe old age of 44 I have Takotsubu Cardiomyopathy, CHF, Long QT Syndrome, arrhythmia and Right Ventricular Dysplasia. I need to have my EKG tattooed like this. I signed papers yesterday, apparently I'm being studied and going into a medical journal.
I just got an EKG tattoo, I've always kind of looked at those sideways because they're largely gibberish. I pulled mine out of the Dubin book so it should be OK
Just a heads up if they have the name on it, it’s arrest in peace steel. My sister’s got the same thing she took the last 12 seconds and picked out a piece of the heart monitor to get a tattooed on herself before my brother died so we did it in remembrance of him.
Depending on local law, a DNR tattoo isn’t going to be followed. I know in my job, unless you have an active DNR order with a patient, or access to one, you resuscitate.
My husband is a paramedic and I had him have an EKG done of himself while he was thinking of me so I had a print out of what is heartbeat pattern is when he thinks about me and was going to get that tattooed, but it became so popular for people to get these tattoos that I decided against it
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Some of these especially the Mike one may be the last heart beats of a loved one, some people get the heart beats of loved ones as a remembrance piece for the ones they have lost
I have a printout of my dad's ECG from right before we took him off life support. And I plan to get it tattooed on my ankle.
@@traceylynn2082so creepy
@Fred-zt5ky you may find it creepy, but I've grown up around death.
@@Fred-zt5kyNope.
That’s so sweet of you to do. Not creepy at all @@traceylynn2082
"and then you turn into an airplane"🤣
Then he 9/11 the nearest high rise
Very relatable🙃
“6/10 for… idk, mike?”
That brings a new meaning to airplane mode 😂
Straight to heaven on the soul plane
my friend just got “deadly peanut allergy” on his wrist lmao, he’s taken pretty seriously w it and had nurses actually say that’s kinda smart in a stupid way.
My moms been debating doing this but with what she’s allergic to cause she’s deathly allergic to penicillin and mold
@@uni8514It’d be really useful, my friend has the same allergy to penicillin and kept having to tell doctors not to give her anything with penicillin or else…and yet she kept being prescribed penicillin 🤦 I hope your mom finds a way around this!
@@uni8514that would be extremely useful
I’ve seen people tattoo T1D on their wrists
That’s smart! It reminds me of this tattoo show that I saw years ago where this elderly lady got an red ombré colored letter A tattooed under her collarbone. She lived jn an area that had a lot of earthquakes and was worried that if she died in one no one would be able to identify her. She also wanted an identifying detail that her loved ones could look for if need ever be.
The DNR tattoos are NOT legally binding. Please make sure your wishes are completely up to date, and all paperwork is completed properly
It’s not that they think the tattoo itself will work. It’s that the tattoo makes the people CHECK if you have one. There are many many stories of people with a dnr that were revived by doctors who didn’t check or other people doing cpr in emergencies who are unaware. Obviously outside of a hospital you can really check if someone has a dnr but if I saw someone with that tattoo I wouldn’t do cpr plain and simple. In hospitals it’s a good fail safe to make sure doctors check before jumping to revive you.
I came here to say this. Exactly. When you get called out to someone coding, saving their life is the first response, not checking to see if they have a DNR card in their wallet. This gives them something they can't not see since they might miss medical bracelets in that situation. @RazzleMazzleTazzle
@@RazzleMazzleTazzle yes thank you for addition. The tattoo absolutely should make the staff double check, and therefore you should make sure your paperwork is completely up to date. Very good point about non-hospital situations though! In everyday life there is no duty to perform CPR unless you have a special duty of care towards the person (parent/child, lifeguard/swimmer, etc)
@@RazzleMazzleTazzleThis. My dad had a dnr and yet they tried for very long to bring him back, I wasnt there so I wasnt able to tell them. Thankfully he was gone, his life was horrible at best for the last year before his death.
I was told by a priest that dnr people were guilty of suicide ….crazy upbringing I had
My sister has a Tattoo of a medicly accurate heart on her right site of her torso. Because her heart is literaly on the right site. She has situs inversus totalis
That's crazy and also so cool!
omg what
@@rcg224 all her Organs are at the wrong Spot and some are even missing. It's really cool
@@lissannac8099 🫣
Enrique iglesias also has situs in Curtis total is fun fact
I had a small pair of scissors and a "cut here" dash line under them tattooed on the skin which was about to be amputated from a panniculectomy. My whole medical team helped keep the surprise from my surgeon until day of and we collectively pranked him, MONTHS in the making. It was very small, and he absolutely loved it.
The best kind of prank 😢
That's hilarious absolutely awesome
Oof that is tough but glad you have a fun positive outlook!
I don't remember the tumblr username but someone told a story that they had a shellfish allergy so they got a crab tattoo where the epipen was supposed to go so if they go into anaphylactic shock they could expose the tattoo and tell anyone with an epipen to "stab the crab"
As an EMT if I roll up on someone with a DNR tattoo and no paperwork to prove it, they’re getting CPR
IKR? Legally binding is important for both sides. Just imagine the fools sporting something similar as a joke. It's at best a reminder to go look for the proof.
Definitely, besides what if someone forcefully or without consent tattooed that on thier victims.
@@mimull1378 that sounds so improbable it may as well be impossible
@@laurenanderson7330never equate improbability with impossibility
As they should
So my uncle had gotten a biohazard tattoo on his arm after being diagnosed with HIV in the 90s. Because of his diagnosis, that was his very last tattoo he went and got. He had always been very open about discussing HIV with my sister and I and that the disease didn't define him. He was uncle Joey and he was no different than anyone else. It was only until later in life that i realized that there's a large group within that community that have a biohazard tattoo as a way of being open about their diagnosis.I really think you should highlight it and have discourse.
This is why you should never date ANYONE with a biohazard tattoo lots of people don't understand the meaning
@Monroe15 People who have HIV are just as deserving of love just like you and me. My uncle was with someone in his final years and loved him dearly until the end. Like I said, my uncle was always open about his status. What their love was like behind closed doors is none of my business. The way his wife boosted his self-esteem and gave him purpose was what I saw firsthand, and I thankful they found a soul mate in one another. HIV in this day and age is a lot more manageable. It's no longer a death sentence for people. While it's still a touchy topic, I'd like for you to at least see that those who are diagnosed are still worthy of a human experience.
And I say this with of course just encouraging people to educate themselves on why they have the tattoo. We can't always make assumptions either. Some people are just dummy dumb dumbs who get a tattoo like this without knowing this history too.
@@Monroe15there's no reason not to date someone with a biohazard tattoo if they are open about their diagnosis. HIV is not a death sentence in developed countries in 2024, and it does not mean that someone doesn't deserve love. You can have HIV and still have a loving and healthy relationship with very minimal risk to your partner.
@@LM-MMM id rather not risk my health sorry people who have HIV or any sexually transmited diseases should only date in their own league
When my husband died I was given a ecg trace of his as I also have CHF I have many ecg print outs so my artist took parts from each to make one long trace
it was a very sentimental and emotional tattoo
Sometimes a tattoo can mean more than others would imagine ♥️
I love that. sorry about your loss, I'm sure he was an amazing man ❤
Thank you so much hon he really was one of the good ones♥️🙏🏻
aw, I'm sorry. rip to your husband ❤❤
I feel like the Mike one might have been for a loved one that passed away
Mike makes her heart flutter
Thank you!!
Oh wow lol that's gotta be it!
My mind went the more morbid route and thought it was Mike's last heartbeats, your theory is much nicer 😊
That’s what I thought too
I thought mike died. “Mike” is literally written over a flatline. Probably his family or a friend got that to remember him.
As an emt in pa we were taught that DNRs tatted on the body are not legally binding there for if we don’t do cpr we could lose our licensing
The tattoo isn’t supposed to be ‘legally binding’ it’s supposed to be a fail safe because of the sheer amount of people with a dnr that have been revived simply because the doctors forgot to check. If you see a tattoo like that you’re probably going to check lol.
Lose
@@MTNmomma22thanks lol
The 3rd one with Mike is a ctg, the heart beat of an unborn baby
My friend has forearm tattoo that says "Type 1 Diabetic"
Is her name tori
I had a client who had Dextrocardia tattooed on his chest. Very smart.
omg ur a doctor ?
Um, no, sorry… I’m a mortician. Last responder, as they say.
@@LewisNClarkAdventures 🤣🤣🤣😅
@@LewisNClarkAdventureslast responder 😭😂😭😂😭 omg I haven’t heard that before
“But if you guys were twins, it would not be that bad” sending this to my twin brother to show him the tattoo for in the very unlikely future
Also hidden detail about tattoo #2 the heart beat track looks like tall buildings you'd find in New York
😂 I'm glad I'm not the only one, I immediately went "Uh oh, wait, he doesn't see it at all!"
I like your name
I know a guy who do to medical things. Only has a pulse on the right arm.
He has tattoos that read “pulse” and “no pulse”
I have a sound wave tattoo and the amount of times people have asked if its a heart beat...my go to response is "i sure hope not, they would probably be dying" 😂
I have “fall risk” tattooed on my wrist because I faint super often and have acute motor neuropathy.. my physical therapist loves it
Actually I read that the do not resuscitate one would not be legally upheld because of the argument that people might change their mind on tattoos and since its permanent they may have just not updated their tattoo to reflect their actual views at the time of whatever incident has them now in this situation where the tattoo is being debated.
I’m debating getting a tattoo that says I have seizures in case I’m in public and am incapacitated. Would that be a good or a bad idea?
Do you already have a medical alert bracelet, or something like it?
I’d say only if it’s in the same location as a medical bracelet then that’s smart… otherwise if you get it elsewhere nobody will know to look for it.
Just buy the necklace or bracelet, people will look for those, not a tattoo.
you could get one with basic info like "check for my med bracelet" or "emergency contacts in my bag" kinda thing, only because people/hospital phone numbers change & stuff! i like the idea of a warning tatt but it'd have to be visible like on your arm & you'd probably still need to carry med info somewhere on yourself for better detail
I have a tattoo for my type-1 diabetes. 🤷♀️ I don't like weaing danging jewelry, so i think it's better than nothing. From what I've heard, medical alert tattoos are becoming more common and more medical professionals are being taught to look for them.
That was actually Mike's last Heartbeats
Does a DNR tattoo qualify as a legal document? Would doctors be held liable for honoring it?
This. I wanna know too
In the organisation I'm part of, no it isn't a legal document. We basically just have to continue as normal unless the patient has a piece of paper signed by a doctor
Idk about the guy shown in the video specifically, but maybe they got it as a backup of sorts so that the doctors would pause and go "hey does this patient have a DNR on file?" Just a thought
Nope, because you may have changed your mind since getting the tattoo. Though it will definitely make the doctor’s stop to see if you do have a real DNR in place
I’m in Canada, it’s not legal here. Unless you have the proper documentation it’s not valid.
My oldest son’s dad had “place tag here” on his big toe a long time ago for the toe tag when you die. He figured he would give the coroner something to laugh at. He died last summer. My son and I were just talking about the tattoo a few months ago. It made us laugh. His dad was an amazing man/father and had a hell of a sense of humor.
Mike had PEA, Ven Tach, And Afib, all at the same time, for about a second
I never even thought about medical tattoos, I suppose they could be useful for some people but some conditions are pretty complex. If my kid someday got a medical tattoo it would be something like half of a heart, O2=75>, and an irregular heart beat, I think it would confuse people more than anything lol. He has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (essentially only half a heart and it causes extremely low O2, as long as it over 75 he doesnt need oxygen) and he has an irregular heartbeat. I suppose he could just get HLHS tattood but we've met so many medical professionals that I've had to educate on his condition, i doubt that would be effective either. I think in his case it would be easier to just cary something in his wallet 😂
“6/10 for……… Mike” 😂
I got my daughters actual heart beat rhythm tattooed from when she was in the hospital. Im glad i got to take that home
1. The first one is awful because you can't tell if it's binding or just an art piece. There have been cases where people did not know and it was a huge problem for the doctors and the hospital.
2. Those are obviously the last heartbeats of a lost loved one named Mike. How did he not get that?
That “Mike” one. I’m pretty sure that’s someone’s last heart beat. A lot of people do that type of thing-
I’m pretty sure that “Mike” one was mikes actual last heart rhythm before passing. So it’s probably pretty accurate.
You need to look into the tattoos
The 3rd one is a loved ones heartbeat just before they died
I understand that yall are supposed to ignore the dnr tattoo on the chest "for legal reasons".
I have a few of my EKG strips I’ve considered having tattooed somewhere. The most dramatic & clearest is from an ambulance ride several years ago where I was experiencing extreme tachycardia with brief episodes of Afib which began rapidly began transitioning into full Afib. So bc I live 30min from the nearest ER the dr advices the paramedic to perform a rapid cardioversion using the difibulator. Needless to say it hurt like heck & was terrifying…especially since before becoming disabled I was a paramedic/ER Trauma nurse. So I understood EXACTLY what the monitor was showing & EXACTLY what was going to happen. The part of the EKG I got the paramedic print out a copy of for me shows the erratic heart rate, the shock & then a normal sinus rhythm if slightly elevated at 115. But considering I fully understood everything going on & was completely awake when shocked…I think 115bpm is understandable.😅 Pretty sure the young paramedic’s heart rate was well above that since he had only been a paramedic for barely a year.😂
-Due to the fact there are multiple causes of my tachycardia plus other chronic issues/conditions drastically limiting the already limited treatment options for my chronic tachycardia that occasional gets dangerously out of control…I’ve had to have cardioversion on 12 separate occasions…both via medications & shock pads. More if you count the times cardioversion via medication didn’t work & I ended up requiring the shock pads or the 2 times it took being shocked twice to convince my heart to start behaving normally again. Even though I was fairly sedated those 2 times were extremely terrifying!
Thankfully only 2 done by shock pads had to be done without sedation. The one in the ambulance I just described & once at walk-in urgent care clinic in a tiny rural town in Louisiana with the nearest ambulance over 20min away & then the nearest hospital that had an ER with a cardiologist present a 40+min drive after that. The urgent care doctor on call also worked shifts at one of the busy ERs at one of the major hospitals in New Orleans. So thankfully he knew what needed to be done & how to do it. Afterwards they loaded me into an air ambulance(medical helicopter)to transfer me to Tulane in New Orleans. Which by air didn’t take that long but due to the swamp lands between the small town we had been visiting relatives in & New Orleans it was over a hour drive in a non-emergency vehicle.
Without realizing it I had become mild to moderately dehydrated and the temperature had gotten significantly higher than predicted & higher than is normal for late fall in that area. I already have serious chronically low BP as well as heat intolerance that can make it drop even further. Both dehydration & serious drops in my BP can be trigger for my chronic tachycardia to become dangerously rapid & possibly transition into dangerous &/or unstable rhythms.
- Let me assure you…living with severe heat intolerance in the extreme southern US(less than 60 miles inland from the Gulf)where it is hot enough to cause me issues 8-10 months out of the year if I have to step outside for longer than a few minutes is beyond frustrating! As is my electric bill to keep my house cool enough I can actually move around without risk of heat making my BP drop & my body drop with it as it causes me to pass out.
I have enough trouble passing out due to other factor affecting my heart rate &/or BP! Not to mention my hips, knees & ankles randomly causing me to test the hardness of the floor by dislocating thanks to severe Ehlers Danlos Syndrome…a genetic connective fissures disorder that worsens with agr…which is the ultimate root cause behind my BP & heart rate issues.😕😒
For anyone considering it in the UK - Tattoos, bracelets etc for DNAR are not recognised by any medical staff. Only a signed and witnessed medical or legal document is regarded as fact. Even this has to be dated within a fairly short timeframe, used to be 2 years, though this may now have changed.
i think a cool one is actually one my grandpa wanted: he had a ton of heart issues and thought it could be a cool thing to “document “ what happened with different beats or whatever( heart attack with a matching sequence n all)! sadly he never got the chance to get it due to passing but it’s one i’m interested in mimicking!
Mike flatlined at the end 😂
The sibling one is pretty cute.
Ohhhh, LOVE the DNR one! NO QUESTIONS NEEDED! 😂
“And then your name is Mike” lmfaoooooo🤣🤣🤣
Bro called them basic I'm dead!!! 😂😂😂
Imagine if you've changed your mind and you DO want to be resuscitated but did not get to correct the tattoo in time before the life-threatening event
If it isn't already, this should be an Ink Master episode.
Trevor’s “Cut Here” tattoo
I’d love to see more thoughts on medic alert tattoos, vs jewellery.
I got my heart rate tatted on mewhich is normal rhythm with a tachycardic rhythm in it as well as infinity sign in the middle for mental health. Im pretty positive its been done before but atleast i thought of it on my own and used my own heartbeat from an ekg
I legit thought the first one was Frank’s friend on Shameless!
getting the first one, hopefully they'll listen
Thought this short will would be better not just the heart beats which are common.
Tattoos I've seen are diabetic types, allergies, medical conditions. It definitely helps in an emergency
I've thought about getting "No MRI's" as I've got tons of metal in my spine & I'm terrorified no one will see the giant scar on my back before they try.
“6/10 for.. i don’t know, mike”
I don't know why but "and then your name is mike" fucking destroyed me, he says it like it's a medical condition. Like sir I'm so sorry it seems your name is Mike
Reminds me of something a bit unrelated, but i had a friend who recently passed away this winter just before Christmas, he got mixed up with the wrong drugs while in Vegas, stuff put him in a coma for a couple weeks, family decided to let him go when there were no signs of improvement, passed away Christmas morning, but one thing the doctors did for the parents, they recorded his heartbeat during the time he was alive and put it in one of those stuffed animals with the speaker in it, so no matter what, they could still hear when he was living
Imagine getting pulled over 3 times within like 20 minutes and thinking the cops are the problem 💀
The mike one is most likely a loved ones last heartbeats, along with a few others in the video as well
The mike tattoo's tilte says something like "confirm victory the least beat shoot sex porch"
The second one would've been really cool, if the person wearing it were a Cardiologist, who was an extremely seasoned globe trotter, and the 'heart graph', was the skyline of their favorite city in the world.
I have a rlly fast heartbeat and if I get the confidence I'll get my heartbeat tattooed
This is why I checked MANY TIMES to make sure my heartbeat tattoo design was accurate before getting it 😂
As you were talking I was starting to consider a regular heartbeat over the heart, but clearly that’s a little basic as well
That DNR needs a DRS signature! LOL
My grandmother has one tattoo and it's my aunt's last heartbeat. 35 years later it looks kinda wonky but it still means the same thing
I have a suspicion that the Mike tattoo wasnt a heartbeat but the oscillogram (the waves that show when recording an audio) of someone saying his name. There is a version of such that has the sharp peaks that the tattoo has.
I feel like the Mike one was supposed to be her heart fluttering when she thinks about him
“6 out of 10 for idk.. Mike” 😂
The first guy got it as a joke while drunk
I plan on getting my EKG tattooed when my heart condition was active (I had surgery) because I have WPW (Wolff Parkinson White) that gave me a pretty abnormal heartbeat and serious SVT episodes. It of course had a big effect on me in many ways and it’ll always be a part of who I am now.
That third one looks like someones heartbeat who passed away
I’ve heard of soldiers getting their information tattooed before, basically name and D.O.B on their chest in case their body is too dismembered or disfigured to identify and usually blood type in case their dog tags are too hard for the medics to read (although I think most medics use 0-)
The DNR one isn't legally binding they will still resuscitate
Eventually I want a heartbeat tattoo somewhere on my, preferably somewhere around my thumb-to symbolize the fact both my parents met working in the medical field. Maybe even a replica of my dad’s Rod of Asclepius tattoo.
Remember the “Do not resuscitate” tattoo is not legally binding, it actually has caused problems to doctors who aren’t sure what to do, if you have an actual DNR order be sure to include any relevant information so the hospital can find it and respect your wishes.
The DNR one got me thinking. What if you had a visible (easily seen) tattoo stating DNR form with a QR code for a digital copy underneath it? Could save the frantic searching for paperwork and save from a lawsuit depending on how the person with said DNR is.
"Some thing...with a bunch of flutters"...that's artifact!
There was a boy in my highschool who came back from turkey at about 13/14 with his medical bracelet tattooed on him because he kept losing the actual bracelet and people thought he was drunk and didn’t realise she needed insulin.
3 out of 10 for the do not resuscitate since it can’t actually be used, but is pretty funny
The last one reminds me of rhythm doctor
Why does his heart skip a beat when he sees his sister
I feel like Mike had EKG artifact tattooed on himself. 😂
The air plane one just made me think of 9/11
Fun fact, a tattoo is not a legal DNR. Until paperwork is sighted, doctors by law have to perform life saving measures.
Need to get me a "do not resuscitate" tattoo
The one with the Mike name symbolizes someone’s last heartbeats before they passed away and their name is st the end to show who passed away
"Can't ID this patient!" *puts ear to chest* "---mike---mike---mike---"
Found out after 3 cardiac arrests at the ripe old age of 44 I have Takotsubu Cardiomyopathy, CHF, Long QT Syndrome, arrhythmia and Right Ventricular Dysplasia. I need to have my EKG tattooed like this. I signed papers yesterday, apparently I'm being studied and going into a medical journal.
A DNR tattoo isn't valid in all states (unsure outside of the US), so make sure you check before getting one!
ill get “if im gonna die please let me do so”
I would believe that was Mike's heart rate right before he flatlines
Those look more like my stock portfolio than a medical tattoo.
Ooo do me next!!!
my friend has a "please stab here" tattoo for their epipen. the last EMT still missed it COMPLETELY but he wasn't very... good at his job.
I believe that the Mike one is a sound wave
Thats 3rd one looks more like he's tracking his stock earnings.
bicep tattoo but instead of barbed wire its a normal lead II
OR
tattoo sleeve of every common lead II rhythm and morphology
Lead II? Pffft. I’m getting a V4.
I just got an EKG tattoo, I've always kind of looked at those sideways because they're largely gibberish. I pulled mine out of the Dubin book so it should be OK
Just a heads up if they have the name on it, it’s arrest in peace steel. My sister’s got the same thing she took the last 12 seconds and picked out a piece of the heart monitor to get a tattooed on herself before my brother died so we did it in remembrance of him.
Depending on local law, a DNR tattoo isn’t going to be followed. I know in my job, unless you have an active DNR order with a patient, or access to one, you resuscitate.
My husband is a paramedic and I had him have an EKG done of himself while he was thinking of me so I had a print out of what is heartbeat pattern is when he thinks about me and was going to get that tattooed, but it became so popular for people to get these tattoos that I decided against it