Poisoned Tourist saved with Vodka Drip! (In AU)
10-10-2007 | 02:30 PM
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Poisoned Tourist saved with Vodka Drip! (In AU)
I sooooo need to go to Australia after reading this.
Poisoned tourist saved with vodka drip
With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia
BRISBANE, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would normally have used to save his life.
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in antifreeze that can cause renal failure.
Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects of ethylene glycol.
Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz at Mackay Base Hospital where the man was taken for treatment said he was given pharmaceutical-grade alcohol on arrival, but that the hospital's supplies soon ran out.
"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a nasogastric tube," Gelperowicz said in a statement.
"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit," he said. "The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka."
The patient made a successful recovery. The incident occurred about two months ago, though the hospital just released information on the case.
With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia
BRISBANE, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would normally have used to save his life.
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in antifreeze that can cause renal failure.
Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects of ethylene glycol.
Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz at Mackay Base Hospital where the man was taken for treatment said he was given pharmaceutical-grade alcohol on arrival, but that the hospital's supplies soon ran out.
"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a nasogastric tube," Gelperowicz said in a statement.
"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit," he said. "The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka."
The patient made a successful recovery. The incident occurred about two months ago, though the hospital just released information on the case.
10-10-2007 | 07:40 PM
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lol sorry but I aint going into it for fear of getting torn to shreds and/or banned.
That being said, we are now off topic so lets get back to talking about vodka and Italians that drink anti-freeze
That being said, we are now off topic so lets get back to talking about vodka and Italians that drink anti-freeze
10-11-2007 | 08:13 PM
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10-12-2007 | 02:57 AM
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Having spent so much time in the company of sailors (not that there's anything wrong with that, lol), you can imagine how many frigging times bloody rum has been foisted on me.
The only time it gets past my lips (together with coffee btw, in the choc covered beans variety) is when it's 2am, more than 10nm offshore while raining and blowing more than 30knots. Then, it's a great drink!!
The only time it gets past my lips (together with coffee btw, in the choc covered beans variety) is when it's 2am, more than 10nm offshore while raining and blowing more than 30knots. Then, it's a great drink!!
10-12-2007 | 03:58 AM
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The old anti freeze hey!!!
Gotta be careful of that stuff if you only have half a brain.
Looks refreshingly like green cordigal & tastes very sweet.
Never drunk any personally but it sure smells sweet.
Curious to learn the circumstances that made this guy drink it....???
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Gotta be careful of that stuff if you only have half a brain.
Looks refreshingly like green cordigal & tastes very sweet.
Never drunk any personally but it sure smells sweet.
Curious to learn the circumstances that made this guy drink it....???
REgards
is that the stuff I witnessed few weeks ago ?
10-12-2007 | 07:03 PM
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10-12-2007 | 08:17 PM
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... so the moral of the story to all is: get private health insurance!!!
10-13-2007 | 12:22 AM
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I went to a surgeon a few years back who worked in both systems and he told me
"Labor stuffed the public system and the Liberals have stuffed the private system."
I believe him.