[Rhodes22-list] Great story.

[Jim White]

Thank you Rummy
  It's always the evils of alcohol that we're subjected to. People rarely tout the benefits.
  Now....
  I'm pretty sure it's five oclock SOMEWHERE!
   
  jw

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
  
Doctors save poisoned tourist using vodka drip
With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia.
, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian 
tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would 
normally have used to save his life. 
The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was diagnosed as 
having ingested a large quantity of ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in 
antifreeze that can cause renal failure. 
Pure alcohol is often given in treating such cases because it can inhibit 
the toxic effects of ethylene glycol.Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz at Mackay Base 
Hospital where the man was taken for treatment said he was given 
pharmaceutical-grade alcohol on arrival, but that the hospital's supplies soon ran out. 
"We quickly used all the available vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided 
the next best way to get alcohol into the man's system was by feeding him 
spirits through a nasogastric tube," Gelperowicz said in a statement. 
"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days 
in the intensive care unit," he said. "The hospital's administrators were 
also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of 
vodka." 
The patient made a successful recovery. The incident occurred about two 
months ago, though the hospital just released information on the case.







(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7468311/) 





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