Was the doctor AI?
Reason #1 why we should put sick people into earthquake simulators.
Percussive maintenance strikes again
Had a TV growing up that we kept a large pot on the top of for when it went to static. We’d slam the top of the TV with it. No idea where that TV went but that pot is in my kitchen now.
An alternative headline is that a woman was nearly burned alive after being misdiagnosed.
Reading the article, it doesn’t seem like a misdiagnosis. She showed all the signs of brain death and her chances of living were basically zero. Her family decided to start making preparations. When her body was being delivered back in an ambulance, they hit a pothole that jolted her brain back into action. Genuinely crazy medical story, but with 8,000,000,000 people on earth, this happening to at least one person is all but guaranteed.
If you read the article, it seems she was properly assessed as having no brain stem activity. Could be a cover up, who knows.
And they wouldn’t actually cremate her until there was no pulse. Unless they covered that up too!I mean obviously we only have the accounts of the article, but they claim her vitals were low, her Glasgow Coma Scale had dropped to a 3, and multiple tests showed she had neurotoxins in her system. It sounds like there are records to back up the claims being made. Obviously someone could always be lying, but it sounds like they’ve got the right info backing it up here.
Sounds like a X-file
Well, obviously, she was not properly assessed.
I mean, yeah. But did they actually do anything wrong, anything that any other doctors would have done?
This somehow makes way for a “smack the patient in the face” medical treatment.
“Next week, on House…”
House! What are you doing?!
Dammit House, you got the right result the wrong way. Back to yer soaps with ya!
Do you know in the movies when they dramatically slam someone’s chest and yell “live damn it”?
That is called the precordial thump, and it used to be used in codes
Sometimes a good wallop is all someone needs
In ear and facial surgery where we use nerve monitoring, the surgeon will test for nerve activity by kinda just smacking the patient’s face and seeing if it makes the machine beep.
So, even the side of healthcare associated with finesse can just boil down to “punch em a bit”. Don’t even get me started in orthopedic surgery.
For the same reason a good hard hit in the chest can stop your heart.
Also, the defib is doing something similar, it’s not shock starting your heart it’s trying to send a unified shock to get it all back in rhythm.
Medical beds should be built to automatically quickly lower someone to simulate hitting a big bump when vitals drop.
A glitch launches the patient instead. Possibly has the same results, plus or minus a few extra contusions.
Percussive maintenance, now for people too!
Always has been
That’s what I call beating my children. Those mines aren’t going to dig themselves.
Fido, no! Landmines are unethical!
I just figured it was extra-desperate CPR and never saw a reason to question its legitimacy.
Being fair it kind of is, which is why it’s not really used anymore.
It’s kind of “a 1% success chance is better than a 0% chance” type deal
He’s dead, Jim!
This precordial thump used to be part of my IT toolkit.
Imagine how cool you’d feel if you revive someone with one of those
Arthur Fonzarelli, MD
Considering that technique was discovered by hitting a pothole as well, maybe whomping from the back would be more effective. Or picking up and dropping the patient.
I was 95% sure you were trolling, but holy shit
Not that it’s a good idea or that I would recommend the behaviour outside of extreme circumstances, but it can be useful for someone in shock to get them moving.
Bring back blowing smoke up their ass
Potholes, ruins rims and apparently brings you back to life.
Man I clench my cheeks soo hard every I go over them either bike or car ride
I try to avoid them on my bike.
I try to avoid them in my car.
Had to figure out what a UP highway was.
Every single time I read it I juggle between Uttar Pradesh and the Upper Peninsula. Cause one is much much closer to me.
It’s never the Upper Peninsula.
Haha I assumed it was the yoop. Pot holes are particularly bad this year
There’s usually something in the headline that makes my brain go “oh its uttar pradesh again” but. They both have roads. That have potholes. And have ambulances. And I once again let my brain go “maybe this time!” and I was tricked by my own brain again!
Help the rest of us out
Uttar Pradesh - it’s a state in India
The pothole is a powerful medical tool.
In the industry I’ve heard tell of it cardioverting patients out of SVT, killing patients with an AAA, and spilling the coffee of medics who were not vigilant about their drink discipline (SCMWWNVADD)
New Pfizer pothole gummies!
Delicious gummies, each with a little pothole in case you were falling a sleep at the wheel again… Larry!
pothole gummies
Sounds like a THC gummy so strong that it makes you unable to move, like a cannabis version of a K-hole.
Did that one of the few times I have consumed weed, would not recommend.
Got my revenge on the family member that fed me way too much (and used fucking hash mixed with frosting, which was disgusting) by puking on their bed a few hours later.
I’m going to assume K is for potassium.
Ketamine.
Ah.
Interestingly, I have lately been seeing articles saying that humans who have been declared braindead and regained consciousness have reported hearing conversations that took place several hours after the declared brain death. No links, it was a different device and aren’t in history, but I’m sure searches will return something. Not vouching for veracity, either.
