Anal oxygen administration may be life-safer

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Originally published at: Anal oxygen administration may be life-safer | Boing Boing

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This is a strong nomination for this year’s Ignoble Prize.

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Something something … blowing smoke up your arse…

And something something else … don’t light your farts…

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Now in the BoingBoing store!

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I wonder if, instead of abrasion of the intestinal mucosa, they could use something similar to peritoneal dialysis, create a dwell of the oxygenated perfluorochemicals inside the peritoneal cavity using an implanted catheter. If it works to clean the blood (dialysis) then there is also access for the blood to react with the perfluorochemicals to take up the oxygen. Any MD’s (especially nephrologists) out there with an opinion?

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Reminds me of the pill Professor Farnsworth developed to allow Fry to survive the ocean depths.

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Ummm, wow? That’s certainly different… Not sure where to go with this, I think I will leave it be.

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so … it’s just torturing animals for shits and giggles then

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I’m damn sure not calling a band Anal Intubator.

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Well, if someone’s breath is too bad to perform CPR…

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Dude, mouth-to-anus resuscitation is never going to be a thing!

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Thanks for the idea, turtle buddies!

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Reading about this the other day, I was reminded of an early European attempt to resuscitate drowning victims by pumping air up their rectums. It was almost not entirely wrong, as it turns out - granted, the air was largely a medium to transport tobacco smoke, and the oxygen needs to be suspended in liquid rather than as part of a gas mixture, but(t)…

In the European tradition, it was used to try to revive drowning victims, before mouth-to-mouth was invented.

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Wait - I thought we were supposed to make fun of the 18th century doctors for this…

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liquid-breathing

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First thing I thought of - the scene with the rat. Just looked through IMDB on this, and seems like The Abyss was not the greatest film to work on - Cameron (and others) nearly didn’t survive it:

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No. Nope. No noppity nope NEVER go there ever never ever.

HuCen

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