Dear Robert
It was perfectly true that you could use a condom as a CO2-permeable
membrane on early Technicon systems. However, Alan Curry can cap this. When
he was at Aldermaston they found that a condom was useful to incorporate as
part of a flutter-valve in HPLC systems. The most junior scientist in the
place was sent down to the nearest Pharmacy to buy a few: the assistant
asked him if he wanted with- or without-teat. The young lad replied 'it
doesn't matter; I cut the ends off'.
With Christmas greetings from Gordon
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Christmas alcoholics -(Spam i.e. delete without reading if you
have no sense of holiday humour).
> 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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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of McClean, Liz
> Sent: 15 December 2003 16:40
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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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