Doctors save man with vodka drip
 

This is from the The BBC at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7037443.stm

The (Australian) ABC News service has slightly different details, at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...10/2055520.htm


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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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The math:
3 days.
24 hours in a day.
3 standard drinks per hour.
3 x 24 x 3 = 216 standard drinks, or, technically, pissed as a newt.
Even allowing for his body processing 1 standard drink per hour, by the end he'd still have 144 standard drinks in him ... if my guess is correct that translates to a blood alcohol level of 1.44% ...:eek:

D'you reckon he drove home?

Now you see this is what happens when people go to Australia instead of committing suicide.

it happens to most tourists here. You should see the poms sucking back the beers!

:haha:
Why a newt? Inquiring minds want to know.

Have you ever seen what pissed newts do?

Get hooked up to vodka IV drips?

I think I ate some bad fish for dinner. I'm gonna need a Black Jack drip tomorrow after work, please.

I've had one of those Vodka IV's, thats some good shit.

Vodka IV is so l4st w33k. I've finished Vodka V and am a preferred first in line customer for Vodka V!......