Mmm... vodka drip feed...

Here's a strangely delightful image: an Italian tourist was recently administered an IV drip of 100-proof vodka after a hospital ran out of medicinal alcohol:

The 24-year-old man, who was not named, ingested an antifreeze ingredient, ethylene glycol that causes renal failure. It was believed he was trying to take his life.
Pure alcohol is given in treating the toxic effects of ethylene glycol, but when the hospital ran out of the pharmaceutical-grade, doctors did the next best thing and put the dying man on spirits through a naso-gastric tube.
The drip-feed of vodka equaled out to about three drinks an hour for the three days the man spent in intensive care.

It's this kind of ingenuity that really, truly warms the black hunk of granite currently masquerading as my heart. Plus, it gives me ideas for how to spend my retirement days.

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Posted By Scotto at 2007-10-10 09:12:26 permalink | comments

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Pomegranate : 2007-10-11 14:05:07

100-proof alcohol is 50% alcohol.. why would the doctors be injecting the patient with 50% alcohol + 50% flavors/tannins/etc.. instead of 190-proof Everclear?

Aumdoc : 2007-10-10 19:40:21

Interestingly enough, IV alcohol was used to treat premature labor. Yes, this is true and common in the 1960's. There were several physicians I trained under who spoke about their personal experience with this and how hilarious it was to make rounds at the hospital on pregnant women who were completely drunk.

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