What does not happen in life. .. Sometimes things happen with us that are paradoxical, contradictory to logic and not amenable to explanations. Amazing next door. It is only worth a closer look.
Your attention is given to the ten most incredible medical cases that took place to be. Hold on, it will be interesting. So, let's go!
Contents:
- 1. Highest body temperature
- 2. The lowest body temperature
- 3. The greatest number of foreign bodies in the stomach
- 4. The most severe object in the stomach
- 5. The largest number of accepted tablets
- 6. The largest numberof injections
- 7. The longest operation of
- 8. Most of operations of
- 9. The longest heart failure of
- 10. The greatest overload of
1. The highest body temperature
The highest body temperature in the history of medicine was recorded inAmerican Willie Jones( Georgia, Atlanta) in 1980.The thermometer stopped at the level of 46.5 ° C when the patient entered the hospital. Willie Jones recovered and after 24 days was discharged from the hospital.
2. Lowest body temperature
The lowest body temperature of a person was documented in February 1994 in Regina, Canada. The "owner" of this record low temperature was a two-year-old girl named Carly Kozolofsky. By lucky chance the baby managed to survive. She spent over six hours at a terrible frost at the door of her house, which accidentally slammed shut. And now attention! The temperature of her body at the time of fixation was only 14.2 ° C!
3. The greatest number of foreign bodies in the stomach of
2533 foreign bodies was found in the stomach of a forty-two-year-old woman, who suffered from a psychological disorder - obsessive swallowing of objects. Among the "collection" there were 947 pins! With such a load in the abdomen, the woman experienced only a small discomfort, which became the reason for contacting the doctors.
4. The heaviest thing in the stomach
The heaviest third-party object that was removed by physicians from the human stomach in the history of surgery is a huge hairball that weighed 2.35 kilograms. There is a disease in which people swallow hair.
5. The largest number of accepted tablets
565,939 tablets for twenty-one years of its treatment was taken by Zimbabwean K. Kilner. This is the largest number of pills that has ever been taken by a person.
6. The largest number of injections
The largest number of injections was delivered to the Englishman Samuel Davidson. Their number for all his life was almost 79,000. He was given insulin.
7. The longest operation
The longest operation in history lasted almost 100 hours. It was an operation to remove the cyst on the ovary. After her, the patient's body weight was 140 kilograms. Before the operation she weighed 280!
8. Most of the operations
The most transactions of varying complexity were borne by the American Charles Jensen. From 1954 to 1994 he was 970 operations. Operative interventions were carried out in connection with the need to remove neoplasms.
9. The longest heart failure
The longest heart failure happened in the Norwegian Jan Revsdal. A fisherman by profession, he, discharging his professional duties, fell overboard the ship. It was in the Bergen area. In the icy water, his body temperature dropped sharply to 24 ° C, and his heart stopped beating. The cardiac arrest lasted four hours. After Ian was hooked up to the device supporting the artificial circulation, he came to his senses and began to recover.
10. The biggest overload of the
David Perley had to endure the greatest overload. A famous rider during the competition in 1977 got into a car accident. As a result, on the way just a little over 60 centimeters in length, its speed, and therefore the speed of its body, decreased from 173 kilometers per hour to a complete stop. Doctors counted three dislocations, twenty-nine fractures, six heart stops on the way to the hospital.
These are such extraordinary cases from the life of ordinary people. Nobody is immune from this. Although it is better not to get into the book of records in one section with people whose unique cases of life we listed.