In this week’s news of the weird and inventive, doctors in Australia are reporting treating a case of ethylene glycol poisoning by giving the patient three standard drinks of alcohol an hour, for three days, via a nasogastric tube.
This inventiveness came about when doc’s quickly ran out of pharmaceutical grade alcohol. Due to the late hour, they first raided their home supplies of alcohol, and once the stores opened in the morning, bought a case to continue treatment.
Thankfully, hospital administrators appeared to be understanding about the rather large alcohol bill!
-Kelly Hills