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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
snubnose:
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 26 Jan 2015, 06:07 ---My interp of the comic:
Marten was alarmed at her unresponsiveness (panel 2) and called paramedics who arrived and checked her vitals (panel 4). They took her to the ER, where she was walking under her own power, led by Marten (panel 6), until she became aware of where she was or simply had a break/panic attack and punched Marten (panel 8 ). She briefly regains consciousness to see her hand with an IV drip (panel 10), and fades out again, either due to alcohol consumption or a a sedative (panel 11).
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:-o :-o :-o
WHO in their right mind would give a patient with alcohol poisoning a SEDATIVE ?!?
I'm not a doctor or anything, but in my mind somebody who has already been poisoned by one drug surely shouldnt been given another drug on top of it. That could kill them !
DillyDolly:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Jan 2015, 07:24 ---
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 26 Jan 2015, 06:07 ---My interp of the comic:
Marten was alarmed at her unresponsiveness (panel 2) and called paramedics who arrived and checked her vitals (panel 4). They took her to the ER, where she was walking under her own power, led by Marten (panel 6), until she became aware of where she was or simply had a break/panic attack and punched Marten (panel 8 ). She briefly regains consciousness to see her hand with an IV drip (panel 10), and fades out again, either due to alcohol consumption or a a sedative (panel 11).
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:-o :-o :-o
WHO in their right mind would give a patient with alcohol poisoning a SEDATIVE ?!?
I'm not a doctor or anything, but in my mind somebody who has already been poisoned by one drug surely shouldnt been given another drug on top of it. That could kill them !
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I think we'd see a couple IVs if she was getting it anyhow. That punch looked pretty weak and it looked like she passed right out afterwards so I don't think they necessarily had to do anything. I'm wondering, though, wouldn't they strap her down afterwards?
hedgie:
--- Quote from: NilsO on 26 Jan 2015, 07:08 ---
--- Quote from: vogonford on 26 Jan 2015, 00:12 ---Usually you just end up staring at the ceiling, and trust me, that ceiling gets horrendously boring after a while, which is honestly my main memory of ER visits. Those damn ceilings.
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-Which is probably why Jeph shifts Faye's POV a bit downwards. She may be in a semi-sitting position on the gurney. I do not know how realistic that would be, but it is not important.
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Very. Every time I have been into a mental hospital, I was semi-sitting when I was being transported. Especially if she vomited again, it's a safer position.
TieDyeKat:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Jan 2015, 06:23 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jan 2015, 06:16 ---
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 26 Jan 2015, 06:07 ---- Marten gets a new sofa
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Or Hannelore's dad uses it to test a new, high-tech, nuclear-powered cleaning device. :-D
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"Dad! You're using the mad scientist laugh again!"
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Nuke it from space. It's the only option.
HamboneHFY:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Jan 2015, 07:24 ---
--- Quote from: MooskiNet on 26 Jan 2015, 06:07 ---My interp of the comic:
Marten was alarmed at her unresponsiveness (panel 2) and called paramedics who arrived and checked her vitals (panel 4). They took her to the ER, where she was walking under her own power, led by Marten (panel 6), until she became aware of where she was or simply had a break/panic attack and punched Marten (panel 8 ). She briefly regains consciousness to see her hand with an IV drip (panel 10), and fades out again, either due to alcohol consumption or a a sedative (panel 11).
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:-o :-o :-o
WHO in their right mind would give a patient with alcohol poisoning a SEDATIVE ?!?
I'm not a doctor or anything, but in my mind somebody who has already been poisoned by one drug surely shouldnt been given another drug on top of it. That could kill them !
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There's something called a "pharmaceutical channel". I'm no medical expert myself, but the long and short of it is that different compounds interact with the human body in different ways, and may have little or no overlap.
This is why it's perfectly safe to dose up on both paracetamol and ibuprofen - they don't interact with each other, they don't do the same things to the body, which means that taking one doesn't tax the systems that are dealing with the other.
The same goes for alcohol. There are drugs which go perfectly safely alongside alcohol because they do very different things to the body. I couldn't name any specific medicine that might be appropriate here, or even say definitively that yes, there is actually an alcohol-safe sedative, but I do know that there are medicines which can safely be administered in such circumstances and I don't see why one of them couldn't be something to encourage the patient to sleep.
--- Quote from: hedgie on 26 Jan 2015, 07:32 ---Very. Every time I have been into a mental hospital, I was semi-sitting when I was being transported. Especially if she vomited again, it's a safer position.
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In this case, they'd probably have her on her side in case she vomits again. It keeps the airways clear.
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