Vodka saves mans life

[Mrs Behavin]

BRISBANE, Australia - Doctors plugged an Italian tourist into a drip-feed of vodka to save him at a hospital in Australia that ran out of the medicinal alcohol it would normally have used for treatment.
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was brought to Mackay Base Hospital in northeastern Queesland state and was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient of antifreeze that can cause renal failure.
Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit the toxic effects of ethylene glycol.
Mackay Base Hospital Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz said the man was given pharmaceutical-grade alcohol when he arrived, but that the hospital's supplies soon ran out.
"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 per cent alcohol and decided the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him spirits through a naso gastric tube," Dr. Gelperowicz said in a statement.
"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit," he said. "The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka."
The patient, was believed to have ingested the poison in an attempt at self-harm, made a successful recover. The incident occurred about two months ago, though the hospital just released information on the case.

Hospital gives man drip-feed of vodka - Yahoo! News

 

[dt3]

No fuckin way!

*Chugs some antifreeze*

 

[teh_fuzz]

wouldnt that cause alcohol poisioning? 3 drinks an hour for 36 hours?
isnt that like 216 drinks?
thats a hell of a bar tab

 

[AUDRAA]

we do that for our patients that drink antifreeze also, it binds to the receptors so they dont take on the antifreeze. Thing is when you drink that stuff its usually not a good outlook for most with the drip or not. We monitor how drunk they are and Ill tell you they are usually kept around .2 thats drunk lol

 

[dt3]

*Passes Audra the antifreeze*

 

[AUDRAA]

no thanks Donnie I think Ill save my kidneys and liver for a later date. Or should I say I prefer to do it slowly on my own time hahaha

 

[Peter Parka]

That seems very worrying that a hospital allowed its supply of surgical alcohol to get so low that there wasn't even enough left to treat one patient!:eek I hope there's some sort of enquiry over that. Its not like its some backwater hospital, Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia.

 

[AUDRAA]

maybe the staff had a big party the weekend before :shrug: :willy_nilly:

 

[CRZY72004]

no thanks Donnie I think Ill save my kidneys and liver for a later date. Or should I say I prefer to do it slowly on my own time hahaha

but they are evil and need to be punished

 

[GraceAbounds]

I've always liked vodka.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

I've always liked vodka.

I like the way it tastes going down but not the way it tastes coming up :yuk

 

[GraceAbounds]

I've never tasted it coming up. I'll take your word for it. LOL!

 

[Silious950]

AWESOME!!! Teh best hospital evers!

 

[Boomer]

Cheers to that!