Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 189

LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 189. Question 1 In the mid-1980s Alastair Coutts was the surgeon for the Solomon Islands. In 1999 he described one of his more interesting cases in an article published in the BMJ. He used a novel method of stemming a bleeding middle meningeal artery. What everyday substance did he use? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1189463330'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1189463330')) Chewing gum He skilfully rammed it into the left foramen spinosum after the artery decided to complicate an already high risk evacuation of a extradural haematoma. See the full article by Chris Nickson on “A dying patient is saved by Jesus“ Question 2 On the subject of medical techniques in austere environments, what would you do if you ran out of saline on a tropical Island and needed a substitute? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet505261286'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink505261286')) Use coconut water The story of coconut water being similar to human blood plasma originated during World War II when British and Japanese patients were given coco...
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