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  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoBone Apple Tea@lemmy.worldanesthetic
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    4 days ago

    I know you did. But a doctors could’ve tried other milder substances to make it work, but when you work for a billionaire, you kinda do what they’re telling you or they hire someone else.

    So… The dr overtreated an issue they’re could’ve used multiple substances to treat with the same effectiveness, but dispersed risk.


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    4 days ago

    Yeah well, here the problem was, imo, a bad doctor. There would’ve been plenty ways to give the same effect without compounding the abuse from a single drug.

    It’s not like you administer propofol for yourself. But the social dynamic between a celebrity that famous and anyone who isn’t would ofc be different from regular patients. And propofol doesn’t exactly have a large abuser base, which would’ve made it easier to avoid a fatal dose…

    But anyway…



  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoBone Apple Tea@lemmy.worldanesthetic
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    4 days ago

    I mean, it’s not far off it. It’s like, a similar thing, but on a whole other scale.

    Like when you doze off real fkin tired, you might wake up and have a bit of trouble with time. But with anaesthesia, you know you haven’t just got trouble with remembering where you were or when, but someone’s just gone in and taken a huge chunk out.

    When you’re dozed off and confused, it’s closer to being black-out drunk. You sort of may have memories about the time, just needs the right trigger. Like someone saying a fun thing that happen ed which you recall, or when dozing off, you remember having heard the credits of a show you know that airs at a certain time.

    Like as in, you’re just really uncertain. With anaesthesia, you’re certain you don’t know what the fuck happened.

    It’s like the difference between being an agnostic and an atheist. One is really sure and one’s very much on the edge.

    But it definitely depends on what kind of anaesthesia. There’s light, heavier and full-on. I’m sure an anaesthetist could classify them better, but basically one is slight sedation, then heavy sedation/light anaesthesia and then “proper” anaesthesia. The first would be something like perhaps a benzo (valium, diapam etc) or some laughing gas through your nose. Second is like ketamine/fentanyl or other somewhat fast acting substances. And third is just proper knockout byebye and that’s propofol. That’s what Michael Jackson died of. And if he had to take that to sleep…? I mean I can see the appeal, it’s like an off-button for the brain, but I don’t believe you really get rest while in a state like that, not the way we need.

    “In cryo, you don’t dream at all. Feels more like a fifth of tequila and an ass-kicking.”

    That’s a bit dramatic but I just rewatched the Avatars and popped into my head

    Propofol is the one which knocks your light right out, the medium tier with ketamine/opiates is the one which makes people all weird and giddy. (Which is sort of weird to see from Europe that Americans use for dentistry. I mean I would take it, Finnish docs would just never do that, because anaesthesia has risks and pain and trauma apparently doesn’t.)

    So to answer your question… sort of? Like in the way that a tsunami is sort of like the wave you make in a puddle. But you know, different scales…


  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtoBone Apple Tea@lemmy.worldanesthetic
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    4 days ago

    Yeah you have no idea of time passing when put under. No matter how groggy you are when you normally wake up, you have like an intuitive feel about how much you’ve slept. Sometimes its wrong several hours and that feels weird.

    But when put under the intuitive feel is just like as if had been minutes. Or two days. Your brain has no idea. It’s a weird feeling, yeah.

    I don’t even know how many times I’ve been under. Many.


  • Yes, I think it is. But not the one where he actually does become the ECH?

    The Doctor has added a daydreaming protocol and some aliens who have an AI overlord (they can’t do anything without asking it first) manage to survey the Doctors daydreams but not the inside of Voyager, so they believe the Doctors daydreams to be real.

    I think Voyager’s more musical episodes (and Robert Picardo himself) have at least a little to do with SNW eventually getting the musical episode.




  • Dasus@lemmy.worldtohmmm@lemmy.worldhmmm
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    6 days ago

    My apartment building caught fire once. Some drunk had been smoking in the cellars in winter.

    Barely noticed it in the fourth floor, a bit of smell, that’s all.

    The whole cellar floor burned. Fire department didn’t even get people from above the third floor to go out due to smoke inhalation.

    It’s pretty much the same with all fires I can find in the news.

    Finnish building regs are a bit different. For one you can’t get through apartment doors without powertools. They’re also good at isolating fire due two doors at the entrance, properly sealed.

    So we don’t have two staircases.

    We worry more about preventing the fire from spreading instead of what to do if gets uncontrollable. Philosophical difference, really, not saying one approach is better than the other.


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    7 days ago

    Thanks, but I don’t really know what you mean by backstairs, as most apartments I know just open to the one staircase. It’s not way thin, but I’m just saying most of the ones in my city were wider and thicker. The ones which exist, that is. There’s only some of them left in the center and other apartment buildings are basic concrete shits.

    My point is rather that it needn’t be a bank or anything like that to be somewhat fancy, that used to be in style… some time. Early 20th century, maybe?


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    7 days ago

    Lol kinda basic older apartment building made of stone, I think you might be American, lol.

    Those stairs aren’t even that thick, tbh.

    I do get the vibe you’re talking about, but honestly the stone buildings in my city have wider and more elaborate staircases even when they never had any sort od business in the building. I’d love an apartment in one of those, if they weren’t solely in the center of the city, because the thick stone walls in them make it so you can hardly hear anything your neighbour is doing. Also the ceilings are tall af.