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The rectum is an interesting place. You can apparently also absorb water there, if you are severely dehydrated and unable to hold anything down (eg seasick). All you need, the saying goes, is a funnel and a friend.. full disclosure: I've not tried that!
I’m sure a plastic water bottle and a few yoga poses will suffice, go for it!
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Works for alcohol too; keyword "butt chug". Can result in alcohol poisoning if you dose too much.
Works for other drugs too, it's known as boofing.
> The insertion or other voluntary introduction of foreign matter into the anus or vaginal cavity for the sole purpose of recreational misuse (or use) of said item/substance. Similar to butt chugging, with the exception of using non-liquidous matter instead of alcoholic beverages.
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> Let’s be realistic here - if you are requiring a tracheostomy and ventilator, or ECMO the you are severely unwell. Obviously. So why use these invasive procedures if a less invasive one could do the job with less risk? > A blood transfusion, or small risk of infection is the least of your worries at that point. Did you come straight from the 19th century or something? Hospital acquired infections kill hundreds of t…
Angry much? Calm yourself down. Clearly if anal oxygen proves to be safer and as effective then it will be adopted. No one is disputing that. My comment was regarding your expletive laden derision of devices which save hundreds of thousands of lives. And you seem to have missed the point. I did. It say hospital acquired infections are not prevalent or problematic. My point was that every decision in medicine s based…
Could've fooled me with how dismissive you were.
> My point was that every decision in medicine s based on risk and benefit.
Then there should be no problem with highlighting the risks so people realise that alternatives are worth it not just as somehow inferior "second standard" as implied by the person I was replying to, but as equal or better solution.
I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
Quality journalism needs to be paid, though paid how is an open question
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The idea of breathing one of these heavily oxygenated liquids has been around for a while and I believe even tested on live animals. I can’t remember if it was tested on humans. In theory it all works and has great benefits for breathing in high pressure environments. In reality I believe the issues encountered were: getting past the feeling of drowning at the beginning, needing very strong lungs for even normal brea…
> ...transitioning back to air being problematic. Yeah, this seems to be quite an obstacle, giving the fact how long it may take for lungs to fully expectorate the mucus after a bout of pneumonia.
The latest season of The Expanse featured a character who had been exposed to vacuum revived by an injection of “hyperoxygenated blood” in the arm. This makes me think they just got the method of administration slightly wrong. In the future spaceship air locks will include a box of emergency oxygen suppositories.
The idea is that this will enable a less invasive way of ventilation for oxygen-deprived patients (i.e., covid-19) than tracheal intubation. It's even possible a patient could be ventilated from (pardon) both ends simultaneously.
So they got O2 into the bloodstream. How does the CO2 get out of it?
The rectum is an interesting place. You can apparently also absorb water there, if you are severely dehydrated and unable to hold anything down (eg seasick). All you need, the saying goes, is a funnel and a friend.. full disclosure: I've not tried that!