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Doctors save poisoned tourist using vodka drip
With treatment, Italian visitor made successful recovery in Australia.
, Australia - Australian doctors said they plugged a poisoned Italian  
tourist into a vodka drip after running out of the medicinal alcohol they would  
normally have used to save his life.  
The 24-year-old Italian, who was  not further identified, was diagnosed as 
having ingested a large quantity of  ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in 
antifreeze that can cause renal  failure. 
Pure alcohol is often given in  treating such cases because it can inhibit 
the toxic effects of ethylene  glycol.Dr. Pascal Gelperowicz at Mackay Base 
Hospital where the man was taken  for treatment said he was given 
pharmaceutical-grade alcohol on arrival, but  that the hospital's supplies soon ran out. 
"We quickly used all the available  vials of 100 percent alcohol and decided 
the next best way to get alcohol into  the man's system was by feeding him 
spirits through a nasogastric tube,"  Gelperowicz said in a statement. 
"The patient was drip-fed about  three standard drinks an hour for three days 
in the intensive care unit," he  said. "The hospital's administrators were 
also very understanding when we  explained our reasons for buying a case of 
vodka." 
The patient made a successful  recovery. The incident occurred about two 
months ago, though the hospital just  released information on the case.
 
 

 
     

 
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