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Izo said:
Ye. Seen it a few times. Guy with a boil on his eyelid. Surgeons took piece by piece, looked like terminator at the end. Another time was a forearm, same thing, terminator. High mortality.
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is it high mortality b/c surgeons just remove the affected areas and a little bit, but it just keeps on spreading so they keep on removing and removing until the patient is dying from surgery or the bacteria got em?
 
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is it high mortality b/c surgeons just remove the affected areas and a little bit, but it just keeps on spreading so they keep on removing and removing until the patient is dying from surgery or the bacteria got em?
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Sepsis, shock. It's super fast progression. Scares the shite out of you when you see it. Surgery is to keep ahead of the curve. I used to work at an HBO tank during med school. HBO is adjuvant to the surgery, attempt to kill anaerobic bacteria, in between the primary treatment, surgery. Patients kept coming back with less tissue and more bone exposed. Terminators, really.
 
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Sepsis, shock. It's super fast progression. Scares the shite out of you when you see it. Surgery is to keep ahead of the curve. I used to work at an HBO tank during med school. HBO is adjuvant to the surgery, attempt to kill anaerobic bacteria, in between the primary treatment, surgery. Patients kept coming back with less tissue and more bone exposed. Terminators, really.
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they really warn of flesh eating bacteria when using a neti pot
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eat your nose off!
 
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Izo said:
Sepsis, shock. It's super fast progression. Scares the shite out of you when you see it. Surgery is to keep ahead of the curve. I used to work at an HBO tank during med school. HBO is adjuvant to the surgery, attempt to kill anaerobic bacteria, in between the primary treatment, surgery. Patients kept coming back with less tissue and more bone exposed. Terminators, really.
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Saw one come through the ICU a couple years ago. The patient was wise enough to beeline straight to emergency the instant they saw how fast it was spreading (ER staff also took half-hourly pictures so we could see how fast it was spreading, impressively fast) ER got them on IV antibiotics immediately but even then they crashed hard and fast enough to need intubation and ICU, super delirious, fasciotomies, multiple debridements, terminator hand for sure, skin grafts, the whole adventure. They he still come into our hand therapy department for rehab to this day.

As far as the show, watched the odd episode, it's about as accurate as they come, but doesn't interest me at all since it's basically a show one degree separated from my day job.
 
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Izo said:
Sepsis, shock. It's super fast progression. Scares the shite out of you when you see it. Surgery is to keep ahead of the curve. I used to work at an HBO tank during med school. HBO is adjuvant to the surgery, attempt to kill anaerobic bacteria, in between the primary treatment, surgery. Patients kept coming back with less tissue and more bone exposed. Terminators, really.
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HBO meaning ?
 
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The Asian motorcycle guy was interesting for 2 reasons. I did a maintenance facility for US Airways in CLT and they used a solution similar to that blacklight syringe to check titanium parts for cracks. (full disclosure, since I was running the damn job, which maintains airplanes and was the MOST disorganized and poorly designed project I ever worked on in my career, I always asked them what 'that thing' does mostly to make sure the asshat engineer had the right electrical panel/load info (about 50/50). Something to think about the next time you are in an airplane.

Next the leg gash, I have a similar wound inside my right elbow from dumb kid stuff involving a bicycle and a chain link fence, that's pretty much what my arm looked like.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
The Asian motorcycle guy was interesting for 2 reasons. I did a maintenance facility for US Airways in CLT and they used a solution similar to that blacklight syringe to check titanium parts for cracks. (full disclosure, since I was running the damn job, which maintains airplanes and was the MOST disorganized and poorly designed project I ever worked on in my career, I always asked them what 'that thing' does mostly to make sure the asshat engineer had the right electrical panel/load info (about 50/50). Something to think about the next time you are in an airplane.

Next the leg gash, I have a similar wound inside my right elbow from dumb kid stuff involving a bicycle and a chain link fence, that's pretty much what my arm looked like.
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plays asian roles
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has super white name, no wonder he just gets bit roles
 
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