Post by Origanalist on May 17, 2016 4:57:59 GMT -8
Today's tip; Dont swallow your cell phone.
Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally swallow your cell phone right when you need to make a call? Yeah, me too. That really happened to an unfortunate Irishman, according to a new report in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. And the challenges doctors faced removing the mobile device might be cause to rethink the conventional strategies for dealing with similar cases in the future.
It all started when a 29-year-old male prisoner was brought to the ER of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin. He’d been vomiting for four hours after swallowing his cell phone six hours earlier. No, I have no idea how he got it down his esophagus in the first place. And yes, as one might expect, the case report notes the young man “had complex psycho-social issues.” A chest X-ray confirmed that the man was telling the truth:
gizmodo.com/what-happens-if-you-swallow-your-cell-phone-nothing-go-1776977487?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally swallow your cell phone right when you need to make a call? Yeah, me too. That really happened to an unfortunate Irishman, according to a new report in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. And the challenges doctors faced removing the mobile device might be cause to rethink the conventional strategies for dealing with similar cases in the future.
It all started when a 29-year-old male prisoner was brought to the ER of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin. He’d been vomiting for four hours after swallowing his cell phone six hours earlier. No, I have no idea how he got it down his esophagus in the first place. And yes, as one might expect, the case report notes the young man “had complex psycho-social issues.” A chest X-ray confirmed that the man was telling the truth:
gizmodo.com/what-happens-if-you-swallow-your-cell-phone-nothing-go-1776977487?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
