tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post2247171547403097989..comments2024-03-09T11:08:34.910+02:00Comments on other things amanzi: cuban resusBongihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-40821514604756775992008-05-06T02:48:00.000+02:002008-05-06T02:48:00.000+02:00Actually, dogs are not universal donors/recipients...Actually, dogs are not universal donors/recipients! The dog blood group system is not quite like the human one, though, and dogs have no naturally occurring blood type antibodies and therefore an initial transfusion of any type to any type is safe. A second transfusion of, for example, DEA 1.1 positive blood to a DEA 1.1 negative dog, though, would cause serious problems.<BR/><BR/>I have some more detailed notes available at: <BR/>http://www.hillary.net/school/winter.98/clinlabmed/labmed.lec.01.29.98webhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05938934194973454729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-47421963951246687332008-03-20T17:02:00.000+02:002008-03-20T17:02:00.000+02:00vijayyour post is particularly ironic to me, becau...vijay<BR/>your post is particularly ironic to me, because i discovered that fact to my great grief last week. i had a 20 yr old girl, who had a minor argument with her mother and had taken rat poison(which most often has al. phosphide).she presented about twelve hours before the end of my shift, and when i was leaving after my shift, she was looking forward to go back to work, worrying about her boss and all that. no medical complications at all, save for an improving met. acidosis. i told her mother that she was ok and would be better by the next day. when i returned 24 hrs later, she was being resuscitated after having developed pulmonary edema following rapidly developing renal failure, with the met. acidosis leading to cardiac depression and ultimately death, all in a matter of six hours. declaring her was the most difficult thing for me to do, even though i spent practically the whole of the past five years in an ICU and was no stranger to traumatic deaths.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-65460005189177583502008-03-17T10:12:00.000+02:002008-03-17T10:12:00.000+02:00Ag shame bongi, to have your dog die in your arms ...Ag shame bongi, to have your dog die in your arms is a horrible experience :-(<BR/>Brilliant story though.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06546956519928584352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-89151401990618986052008-03-15T23:27:00.000+02:002008-03-15T23:27:00.000+02:00Now there's a "12 step program" I don't want any p...Now there's a "12 step program" I don't want any part of!<BR/>I am also sorry about your dog.<BR/>Your Cuban friends were a long way from home.make mine traumahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18149160428613740527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-61112673124792664102008-03-15T17:38:00.000+02:002008-03-15T17:38:00.000+02:00Another great story Bongi. We get a lot of attempt...Another great story Bongi. <BR/>We get a lot of attempted suicides with Organophosphate and related pesticides. Treatment basically is initial Pralidoxime followed by lots of Atropine. The most deadly of the pesticide-suicide-attempts with very high mortality is with aluminium phosphide (Celphos). Cardio & Neuro toxin with some kind of membrane destabilizing effect. No antidote. I remember a patient who had recurrent V Tach & had to be defibbed some 40 or 50 times over 48 hours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-41612171800503811642008-03-14T11:58:00.000+02:002008-03-14T11:58:00.000+02:00Wow, that is a great story!Wow, that is a great story!The Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02368935358031860432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-67658516108226571262008-03-14T06:30:00.000+02:002008-03-14T06:30:00.000+02:00tbtam, this was a long time ago in a fairly rural ...tbtam, this was a long time ago in a fairly rural place where guns weren't yet too common. the poisonings that i describe, as far as i can tell, were fairly unique to that area. these days, gunshotwounds are the order of the day. on one weekend in pretoria 17 gunshotwounds came through casualties.<BR/><BR/>not being fully up to date with statistics, i may be wrong, but if my understanding is correct, we have the highest murder and attempted murder rates per capita in the world. i touched on this in my post 'stories of guns'Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-60399977445857414392008-03-14T05:30:00.000+02:002008-03-14T05:30:00.000+02:00i learned that dogs could donate to any other dogs...i learned that dogs could donate to any other dogs when I worked in al starr's lab (of the starr-edwards heart valve.) greyhounds who'd run, as it were, out of value at the track became donors. i think i may have described it in my book: we bled them out via their carotid arteries. it was the first time, but not the last, that i had to rationalize the good of many...<BR/><BR/>i'm sorry about your dog. i don't want to imagine the scene.Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-18037704768779887662008-03-14T01:32:00.000+02:002008-03-14T01:32:00.000+02:00Wow- what a post. You talk about this poison almos...Wow- what a post. <BR/><BR/>You talk about this poison almost casually, which at first made me very frightened to think of what life must be like where you live. Then I realized that we talk about guns and murder here with the same kind of casualness. <BR/><BR/><BR/>This makes me wonder - are murders more common where you are, or is it just that folks don't have guns like we do here so they use poison?Margaret Polaneczky, MD (aka TBTAM)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16555722791007332247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-18812911299261215772008-03-13T22:55:00.000+02:002008-03-13T22:55:00.000+02:00there was a vermin poison that was in widespread u...there was a vermin poison that was in widespread use. it wasn't actually an organophosphate. i think it was a carbamasepam or something like that. anyway it inhibited pseudocholinesterase. people were putting it in other people's food to try to kill them. as you can see, they were also lacing meat etc which they were throwing to dogs.<BR/><BR/> the locals called it 12 step because, they said, that after you took it, you could only walk 12 steps before you died.Bongihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-74284448914661672422008-03-13T22:34:00.000+02:002008-03-13T22:34:00.000+02:00Bongi, I am enjoying you resus series! Thanks.Wha...Bongi, I am enjoying you resus series! Thanks.<BR/><BR/>What was the source of all the poisoning?rlbateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15236331355857884458noreply@blogger.com