Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment

155 pointsposted 4 months ago
by zdw
(arstechnica.com)

37 Comments

themafia

4 months ago

> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment.

7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.

weird-eye-issue

4 months ago

That's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird

stronglikedan

4 months ago

But it would feel amazing upon release

OptionOfT

4 months ago

I've you've ever had to drink 1 gallon of that salty stuff before a colonoscopy, this sounds similar.

esjeon

4 months ago

That sounds like an amazing sh*t.

highfrequencyy

4 months ago

How did they advertise this experiment?

flowerthoughts

4 months ago

Please, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight.

As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.

qgin

4 months ago

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brk

4 months ago

They were simultaneously filming for a TV game show.

0cf8612b2e1e

4 months ago

Only half knew it was a game show. The others did not want to rock the boat.

weird-eye-issue

4 months ago

Because the researchers are Japanese? Sorry but what kind of question is this?

qgin

4 months ago

The article describes the researchers and research as being based at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. That’s the reason for the question.

weird-eye-issue

4 months ago

Good then you read this part too?

"...co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka"

qgin

4 months ago

That's the story then. Apologies for missing that.

user

4 months ago

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Aspos

4 months ago

So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.

Electricniko

4 months ago

Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.

philsnow

4 months ago

> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid

Yes.. a rat..

(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)

diogenescynic

4 months ago

"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"

"...I'm a butt breather."

Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!

Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?

eth0up

4 months ago

I think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to. Continuous R.. A.. P

AtlasBarfed

4 months ago

Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California

grim_io

4 months ago

To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...

outoftheb0x

4 months ago

that means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?

sentrysapper

4 months ago

>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.

I am relieved for them.

craigmcnamara

4 months ago

This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.

Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.

NoPicklez

4 months ago

So blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial

flakes

4 months ago

Another great post from Arse Technica

next_xibalba

4 months ago

"We were promised flying cars, instead we got butt breathing."

fragmede

4 months ago

I dunno, if this means we can swim underwater and live in undersea cities, I'd consider it an okay tradeoff!

ralusek

4 months ago

I think that Thiel would actually like this. Both because it's progress in the "world of atoms," as he says, but also because it's "blood boy" adjacent.

fainpul

4 months ago

> ...they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure...

Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!

/s

user

4 months ago

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