First 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.
Some Supreme Court justices as well :)
Anal oxygen administration may save lives
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#32Jokes 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?
Maybe some kind of worldwide pandemic of a respiratory infection with a significant fatality rate?
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#33Jokes 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?
Maybe some kind of worldwide pandemic of a respiratory infection with a significant fatality rate?
Especially if ventilator capacity becomes saturated, this could possibly one day be a scalable alternative.
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#34First 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.
Boofing some O2 for fun and profit
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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#36Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210514233706/https://www.econo... This article reminded me of the bizarre source of the expression to "Blow smoke up your arse": http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/origin-expre...
For Firefox users: Click reader mode and if the article is truncated there, press reload/F5 to reload while being in reader mode. If Firefox does not offer the reader mode symbol for a website, you can force loading the website in reader mode by prepending about:reader?url= to the URL.
Or just run a sane browser like Brave
::ducks::
Re: Anal oxygen administration may save lives
#37Jokes 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?
Maybe some kind of worldwide pandemic of a respiratory infection with a significant fatality rate?
Define “significant”
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#38I wish paywalled articles were banned from HN. Just because I can bypass it does not mean it’s worth the effort.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you should have noticed that most news publications are now paywalled. It's annoying but you can't just ban journalism. Blogs are dead, smaller websites are drowned by spam and new search engine "algorithms", and if you want a somewhat authoritative news piece you'll find yourself increasingly having to go behind a paywall. What would be nice to see is a universal micropayment…
This is exactly what Brave is somewhat successfully solving with BAT token.
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#39CPR is on the way to getting even more awkward...
But less covid risk I presume.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe some kind of worldwide pandemic of a respiratory infection with a significant fatality rate?
Especially if ventilator capacity becomes saturated, this could possibly one day be a scalable alternative.
*Fuck* ventilators. They damage the patient's lungs, and laying tubes into the trachea requires traumatic surgery and carries significant secondary infection risk.
ECMO – for patients with too destroyed lungs – is even worse, massive infection risk due to exposing vital arteries and veins, and it destroys your blood cells, requiring constant topping up with fresh blood transfusions.
This has the potential to be less invasive than either measure and could give the patients a chance to let their lungs actually heal from all the damage.