The Dread Boston Salty (pictured above) produces a gas that has been known to knock over a cow at a hundred yards.
It is, sadly, not at ALL rare.
(What happened to the 71?)
Posted on 05/05/2003 3:33:21 PM PDT by realpatriot
A rare Russian anaesthetic that allows patients to snap awake without any sort of hangover may protect stroke and cardiac patients from brain damage.
The gas, Xenon, was thought to have been used by Russian authorities to end a hostage crisis last October.
(Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ...
And I thought xenon was just for overpriced light bulds.
Maybe a new source for drug abuse? Guard your high priced light bulbs!
No bias here...
Any anesthesia agent is a pretty dicey situation. You are on the edge of an overdose and kept there with close monitoring. I've had seventeen surgeries requiring general anesthesia. It's evolved pharmaceutical wise in the past decade. I've still never dealt with the after nausea well. They've piggy backed phenergan, compazine, and others I'm unaware of and it still leaves me quite sick to my stomach for about 12 hours. With the post op morphine though.....who cares?
Not their fault, I understand no one does.
However.
I work out with a retired pain-management M.D. He confirmed that both isofluorane and Xenon are anaesthetics. Isofluorane, says my rough chemistry, is a chlorofluorocarbon (like freon). Both 'ought' to act as simple asphyxiants--certainly not as anaesthetics.
I was wrong. He said nobody really understands how either gas 'works'. The current theory is that they form clathrates in the brain which somehow induce unconsciousness. Removing the supply reduces the partial pressure of the agent in the blood; the clathrates dissolve, et voila, the patient, he is awake!
I dunno. I'm just a dumb engineer.
--Boris
Me too, boris.
I thought maybe this thread had something to do with exploration for alternative sources of methane based on other recent scientific developments (Powered by panda poop).
I guess I was wrong.
That was my first thought as well, and my first reaction to seeing this article was to look for the Pravda sourcing. I'm glad I checked back on this thread - I just learned something, not an unusual occurrence on FR.
They don't give you those big-n-juicy valium shots in the butt during pre-op like they used to. Those took away that hyper-alert feel you get during that skin to stainless steel feel in the O.R. Instead you are left full of anxiety, making small talk with a bunch of masked cast members who are waiting for you to pass out so they can tape up a peter bottle on your pecker and go on about their job. I prefer the valium introduction........
When I go in for my periodic colonoscopies (don't ask), they give me 'kickapoo joy juice' which is mostly Versed. Intravenous. It makes you feel marvelous--cloud 11 or so.
"Hey doc, you wanna stick a TV camera where? Hey, go right ahead, I don't care!"
The interesting thing is that they also have some kind of antagonist for the Versed that drops you back to reality in a couple of heartbeats. "Hey! I was just getting to really enjoying things up there!"
Fortunately it must be administered intravenously and is not available (yet) 'on the street'. Otherwise I'd be an addict!
--Boris
I had several areas of intestine which had died and had to be removed. The camera adventure was done preliminary to abdominal surgery.
The best weight loss program I ever had.
That shot they give you to "relax you"(like that's possible with a camera up your butt), is a real woozy wobbler. I was too sick to enjoy it though. Pain I can take. Nausea I can't.
I never again will dine at buffet's, salad bars, road side stands, gas stations, and other culinary time-bombs.
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