Conversely; I found this letter when looking for a particular paper on the
ethics of PEG tube feeding. It demonstrates conclusively that it is possible
to consume a large amount of beer without the beer consumed increasing the
blood alcohol concentration... If you want to use it in a lecture to make
any one of a number of points, the on line version of the letter is complete
with CT scan. Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be a fluid level in the
condom on the CT scan; obviously either Octoberfest beer isn't as gassy as
the UK equivalent or the condom is CO2 permeable. Perhaps the story that in
an emergency you could use a condom to replace the membrane on the
bicarbonate channel on a SMAC was true after all.
Intestinal obstruction after ingestion of a beer-filled condom at the Munich
Octoberfest
Stephan J. Ott MD, Thomas Helmberger MD and Ulrich Beuers MD
American Journal of Gastroenterology 2003; Volume 98 , Issue 2 , Pages
512-51
Robert Forrest
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Subject: Christmas alcoholics
Dear all
We recently had a patient admitted with a serum ethanol level of 720mg/dL.
He was sitting up the next day eating his breakfast. Is this a record?
Liz McClean
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