I don't think it would work with beer :-)

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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.

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it would for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

heartwerk Oct 10, 2007 11:33 PM I don't think it would work with beer :-)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

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I thought it might :-)

 

Jo

 

 

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Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:11 PM

Re: I don't think it would work with beer :-)

it would for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

heartwerk Oct 10, 2007 11:33 PM I don't think it would work with beer :-)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius