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Anal oxygen administration may save lives
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#22Butt at what cost!!!
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#23First thing I needed to check that I have not woke up in alternate reality and that today is not 1 April, after I remembered that some drug addicts use similar techniques to get high.
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#24Jokes aside, when would this be useful? I can't think of many situations where a patient wouldn't be able to breathe but was still alive. Some burn victims I guess?
Severe lung obstruction, cases where intubation and tracheotomy are contraindicated, et cetera. It's not super common in the grand scheme of things, but then, neither are tracheotomies.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could consider buying a subscription? I often see links on HN from places I subscribe to, so maybe the people who are voting are actually reading these articles and want to share and discuss them with the rest of the community?
I just wish I didn’t need to buy separate subscriptions for each publication. If I’m only reading one off articles from each based on others’ recommendations the individual publication subscription doesn’t really express what I’m trying to achieve.
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#26Jokes aside, when would this be useful? I can't think of many situations where a patient wouldn't be able to breathe but was still alive. Some burn victims I guess?
A previous HN article links to a paper which mentions this would be useful when there is a shortage of ventilators: https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(21)00153-7
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#27I believe the liquid they are mentioning was featured in the movie The Abyss. It is painful for humans to breathe the liquid. But apparently giving you an enema with it works! Amazing.
Makes me chuckle thinking of the next movie about future divers having tubes going into the rectum, not the mouth.
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#28CPR is on the way to getting even more awkward...
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#29Oddly enough it also seems possible to feed people through their anus, it was a humiliation tactic used in Abu Ghraib
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-report-r...
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#30I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
I hear some scurilious dogs put the link into outline.com and often get the article text. No comments though.