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Is he though (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There would be a market for adenosine in prisons if this held up. Usually stops the heart for ~10 seconds when slammed in the IV. We use it to convert supraventricular tachycardia back to a normal sinus rhythm. But there is a few seconds if terror most the time.

[–] KredeSeraf 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe you, random intermet person, actually work in medicine entirely because you didn't spell it "superventricular".

Thanks for saving lives.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Woulda just said SVT and NSR, I had to remember how to spell it out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I always used to wonder who had more acronyms and initialisms: The medical field or the military.

Then a friend of mine from high school became an Army medic, and the answer is actually: "Holy shit, what is wrong with you people!?"