Doctors save man with vodka drip
Australian doctors have kept an Italian tourist alive by feeding him vodka through a drip for three days, medical staff in Queensland say.
The 24-year-old man, who had swallowed a poison in an apparent suicide attempt, was treated while in a coma.
Doctors set up the drip after running out of medicinal alcohol, used as an antidote to the poison.
Medical staff said the patient had made a full recovery, and the hangover had worn off by the time he woke up.
He had been taken to hospital in the northern Queensland town of Mackay after swallowing ethylene glycol – a poison contained in anti-freeze.
“The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit,” Dr Todd Fraser said in a statement.
“Fortunately for him he was in a medically induced coma for a good portion of that. By the time he woke up I think his hangover would have well and truly gone.”
He spent 20 days in hospital before being discharged.
A hospital didn’t have medicinal alcohol for three full days?
This is an Australian hospital #2. The ethanol is used to keep the staff from fleeing. 😉
I agree, don’t know why this is big news. I’ve heard stories of Paramedics having patients take shots on scene as antidote.
LOL!
Used as an antidote? What was the poison? Vermouth? Tonic Water? Rose’s Lime Juice?
How much do you wanta bet that when this guy comes out of the coma he will have the world’s worst headache?
What no Fosters or XXXX?
What a wuss. Last time I had emergency surgery, there were 7 IV bags on three poles, and not one darned one of ’em was a Guinness.
#6, I’ve heard of DosEquis and even Tres Equis (XX and XXX) but I’ve never seen a XXXX. Who brews it?
XXXX or Four X is a beer brewed in Queensland, that only Queenslanders drink.
it tastes like crap.
Hate to spoil it to you, but its now huge in the UK & Ireland