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2020
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Neat News 2020-318 (added 2020-11-13)
Hyperventilation against alcohol poisoning
Public Domain by Emil Mayer
| Doctors do not have many possibilities to treat acute alcohol poisoning. Mainly they stabilize the patient and wait until the liver clears up the poisoning. Now a new method has been tested with a few people in which alcohol levels are reduced via the lungs three times faster by controlled CO2 stabilizing hyperventilation (to prevent dizziness). More tests are needed. |