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There's hacking and there is _hacking_. My sister is training to be a doctor and she has come to dislike the heavily regulated environment we have here in which doctors are not allowed to do anything of this sort. Now, they also don't usually need to, which is a good think, but after she returned from a year in South America, she misses the on-your-feet thinking, creativity and flexibility she could and had to employ…
This line got me: "the doctors successfully released the trapped air from the patient's chest, and she spent the rest of the flight uneventfully eating and watching in-flight movies"
> They sterilised their equipment in cognac
Is there a % alcohol requirement for using spirits to sterilize equipment?
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He was joking about how the patient shared responsibility for his surgical plan
But who would accompany him to jail, a cadaver?
After that, the surgeon would have to contend with malpractice concerns while the patient healed from two holes in their chest, one unnecessary.
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They mention in passing that cognac was used to disinfect things. Not foolproof, but not exactly a sepsis inducing nightmare either.
Cognac is usually what? 30-40% alcohol? It needs to be 70%. https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...
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But who would accompany him to jail, a cadaver?
The patient wouldn't die, but the surgeon would have punched a hole in the abdominal cavity on the wrong side. That would create a new wound, but wouldn't fix the initial life-threatening problem. So then, he'd have to punch a hole on the correct side, fixing the problem. After that, the surgeon would have to contend with malpractice concerns while the patient healed from two holes in their chest, one unnecessary.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They mention in passing that cognac was used to disinfect things. Not foolproof, but not exactly a sepsis inducing nightmare either.
Cognac is usually what? 30-40% alcohol? It needs to be 70%. https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/disinfection...
If all you have to disinfect your ad hoc instruments is brandy, then use it: way better than nothing.
I've had an spontaneous pneumothorax when I was a teenager. Had to undergo emergency surgery with only local anesthesia. The surgeon while cutting my chest asked: "You're sure it is this side, right?", which I confirmed. He then said: "Ok, if you're wrong I'm not going to jail alone."
I did some hostile environment training a while back, one of the medical courses was about "sucking chest wounds", where someone gets shot (or stabbed), and the action of breathing fills the chest cavity and thus means the lung can't work. It's been a long time since I did the course as I went a few years without having to travel to the kinds of places where it's likely I'd need to apply it, but I do remember a plast…
This line got me: "the doctors successfully released the trapped air from the patient's chest, and she spent the rest of the flight uneventfully eating and watching in-flight movies"
For me it was: > They sterilised their equipment in cognac Is there a % alcohol requirement for using spirits to sterilize equipment?
[1] - https://blacktailnyc.com/wh at-is-the-abv-of-cognac/
[2] - https://www.marthastewart.com/7796118/isopropyl-alcohol-perc...
I've seen this in a rom-com before, where they poke a hole in the person's chest and they survive by decompressing the trapped fluids out of the hole. Weird to think about surviving something because you were stabbed in the right spot. Cool stuff.