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Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
- Aspos 1y agoSo "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.
- NoPicklez 1y agoHaha I said the same
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- themafia 1y ago> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment. 7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.
- weird-eye-issue 1y agoThat's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird
- stronglikedan 1y agoBut it would feel amazing upon release
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- brk 1y agoThey were simultaneously filming for a TV game show.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoOnly half knew it was a game show. The others did not want to rock the boat.
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- weird-eye-issue 1y agoBecause the researchers are Japanese? Sorry but what kind of question is this?
- fishmicrowaver 1y ago[flagged]
- qgin 1y agoThe article describes the researchers and research as being based at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. That’s the reason for the question.
- weird-eye-issue 1y agoGood then you read this part too? "...co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka"
- qgin 1y agoThat's the story then. Apologies for missing that.
- highfrequencyy 1y agoHow did they advertise this experiment?
- flowerthoughts 1y agoPlease, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight. As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.
- Electricniko 1y agoExcuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.
- next_xibalba 1y ago"We were promised flying cars, instead we got butt breathing."
- sentrysapper 1y ago>Yes, they gave the animals enemas. I am relieved for them.
- diogenescynic 1y ago"Are you a nose or mouth breather?" "...I'm a butt breather." Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick! Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?
- eth0up 1y agoI think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to. Continuous R.. A.. P
- grim_io 1y agoTo think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...
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- outoftheb0x 1y agothat means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?
- philsnow 1y ago> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid Yes.. a rat.. (The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)
- fainpul 1y ago> ...they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure... Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science! /s
- NoPicklez 1y agoSo blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial
- flakes 1y agoAnother great post from Arse Technica
- AtlasBarfed 1y agoHere comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California
- craigmcnamara 1y agoThis is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs. Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.
- tomhow 1y agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45659883 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45659883.