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>one in 1000 chances of perforating a bowel and dying here and now that sounded impossible and googling a bit I think it's off by a couple of orders of magnitu
by lz400 4y ago
>one in 1000 chances of perforating a bowel and dying here and now
that sounded impossible and googling a bit I think it's off by a couple of orders of magnitude: closer to 1 in 10000 chances of perforation, which has a single digit % of death
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811793/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811793/
- eloff 4y agoThank you, my source was probably wrong, or my memory. However, I wouldn’t be quick to say it invalidates the conclusion, without more careful analysis.