My Strong Medicine

The adventures of a male nurse navigating through life, staying fit, surviving the journey.

Drunks More Likely to Survive Head Injury??

Posted by Sean on September 22, 2009

The researchers pointed out that it is established beyond doubt that alcohol dramatically increases the risk of severe injury and death in the first place, so they were not advocating that people drink before engaging in activities that might cause head injuries.

On the other hand, they said the study “raises the intriguing possibility that administering ethanol to patients with brain injuries may improve outcome.”

The study was “the largest database review on this topic to date,” Salim and colleagues wrote.

OK. This is equally eye-opening disturbing as well as intriguing. Especially for those of us who have treated these individuals.
Things that make you go hmm.

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.