In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

Post by mbubb » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

iso1210 wrote: post #96

marcodiego wrote: post #14

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…

Post by hammock » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:24 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #82

vocram wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the surgeon was pointing to the left side of OP, they just answered “it’s the right side” meaning that the right side was the right side … Guess what the surgeon did.

This is why I say “correct” instead of saying “right.”

Post by FabHK » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:35 PM UTC

Maken wrote: post #28

dmurray wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eight hours! It's hard to believe the woman's condition was critical enough to require invasive surgery with these makeshift tools mid-flight, but so stable post-op that the doctors did not recommend an emergency landing. I understand they recommended against landing pre-op because of worries about cabin pressure, but why not after the surgery? She's going to have to come down at some point.

Maybe she didn't have any kind of health insurance in any country except the one she was traveling to. So when the doctors told her she could endure the rest of the flight, she chose to do so instead of going bankrupt by the medical fees. It would be also insteresting to know if she hid her injuries before boarding for the same reason.

Post by david_draco » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:41 PM UTC

Post by manquer » Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 4:48 PM UTC

Maken wrote: post #28

dmurray wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eight hours! It's hard to believe the woman's condition was critical enough to require invasive surgery with these makeshift tools mid-flight, but so stable post-op that the doctors did not recommend an emergency landing. I understand they recommended against landing pre-op because of worries about cabin pressure, but why not after the surgery? She's going to have to come down at some point.

Maybe she didn't have any kind of health insurance in any country except the one she was traveling to. So when the doctors told her she could endure the rest of the flight, she chose to do so instead of going bankrupt by the medical fees. It would be also insteresting to know if she hid her injuries before boarding for the same reason.