Coming soon: anal oxygen enemas

[+ bigjoey]

Coming to a hospital near you: anal oxygen enemas:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/14/anal-oxygen-administration-may-save-lives

[jjkrkwood]

My asshole doesnt need any more AIR......

[+ glutes]

Early resuscitation efforts included something like this:

 

1. 'stimulating' the victim by means such as rectal and oral fumigation with tobacco smoke. Bellows were used to drive tobacco smoke, a known irritant, into the intestine through the anus, as this was thought to be enough of a stimulant to engender a response in the "almost" dead
   

[+ nycman]

I guess if people can talk out of their asses...why not breathe?

[+ tassojunior]

depends on the doctor

 

[mike carey]

Coming to a hospital near you: anal oxygen enemas:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/14/anal-oxygen-administration-may-save-lives

Interesting article, and as it notes the traumatic nature of intubation makes it a potentially attractive option if it works. The fact that it uses dissolved rather than gaseous oxygen raises questions about what technical difficulty it might present and how easy it might be to use in highly stressed ICUs. One thing that has come out here in recent days is an observation that in Australia, where intensive care units were not under stress, patients' blood could be externally oxygenated, which delivered more oxygen than intubation. (The reporting didn't indicate if it was chosen instead of intubation or as a backup if that was inadequate.)