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At least, this is how I would explain it.
Anyway,
resident scratches
back of his head, then injects novocaine and a muscle relaxant into
muscle and gets
bulb out. He returns
bulb to
patient. Man lives
room.
This where
fun starts. Five minutes later another man gets into ER. The same big metal screw is sticking out of his mouth.
It turns,
previous patient called a taxi and told
driver a whole story. The driver decided to try it himself. Just out of curiosity.
It reminded me: surgeon at med school told us how he was trying to get out a wide glass bottle cork out of a patient's rectum. The guy was experimenting with homosexuality or something like this. It was tough job. Glass is too slippery for any forceps.
You think this side of
Ocean is better?
Think again.
Recently I read a book: Cases in Emergency Medicine. The book is printed in New York.
" A 24-year old man was brought to
emergency department. .. He had placed a firecracker in his anus and lit it. The explosion brought him to attention of bystanders..."
In
same book: "We have removed from rectal ampullae a variety of foreign bodies including pop bottles, razor blades and electric vibrators..."
People do dumb things anywhere in
world.
Children are very susceptible to foreign bodies problems at certain age - around one to four years old. Around one - one and half years, they crawl and bring everything they see into their mouth. Then they choke.
This is why now toy manufacturers are required to make toys with
big parts, not fitting into mouth.
Later children get different objects into mouth, nose, ears just out of curiosity. Does it fit?
It fits.
I remember. When I was a child, I visited a local children ambulatory clinic in Kazakhstan. Just a routine well-being check up annually. Everybody did.
They had a stand. I always was fascinated by that display. That was a glass box. LOR-doctors extracted different objects form
little patients. (LOR = larynx, otis, rhinos = throat, ear, nose). There was a hundred of
objects: coins, small balls, peas, seeds, buttons, etc. Everything that can get in.
So, watch you children.
Also, if you see a light bulb, don't taste it. Never, ever, ever try to do it at home. Don't stretch your dumb luck.

Aleksandr Kavokin MD/PhD, Phila http://www.kavokin.com Aleksandr Kavokin, MD1994 Russia,PhD1997 Russia - Immunology and Allergy, postdoc at Cancer Center at Med U of South Carolina, postdoc at Yale - Cardiology, Molecular Medicine. http://www.kavokin.com http://www.kavokin.uni.cc http://www.geocities.com/aging_rejuvenation/ http://www.appendicitis.uni.cc/ http://www.geocities.com/appendicitis_disease/