[needsmore$]

Hi- Just trying to educate my ED staff-'new toy out there'- called AWOL- it's like nebulizing alcohol- You can buy these machines and inhale alcohol. Being hyped as "less hangover, less calories" Anyone seen pts with problems related to this?
Anne

[Carotid]

that's news to me!

[Nurse Ratched]

OMG - just heard about this today for the first time and here it is. I'll see what I can find out - I wanted to check it out anyway .

[Nurse Ratched]

http://www.awolmachine.com/page-2.htm

Here's the company's site - will have to look elsewhere for the downside stuff, I'm sure, but probably won't have to look far.

[LadyBugLass]

Holy crap!!! Did ya'll look at the PRICE of that gadget? It's $3000.00!!!

That's one expensive "party toy"!

:hatparty:

[traumaRUs]

You know what - you could use a nebulizer which runs about $125 and get the same effect! Yikes! We give nebs away to our patients so parents have them for the wheezing kiddos. Many homes already have these!

[teeituptom]

Given our fertile imagination

human kind will always find a way to improve on anything

particularly if its immoral and or bad for you

[needsmore$]

I downloaded info from AWOL website, plus other sites about whether this should be addressed in legislation-Can anyone find info regarding whether this would affect breathalyzer tests-or other ED concerns? We have the same concern that some joker could use or try to use a home neb machine and neb some Jack Daniels? What do you think?

anne

[talaxandra]

An ED friend of mine looked after a young guy a couple of years ago who came in with severe alcohol poisoning after using his air pump to nebulise spirits. As I understood it, because it hit the blood stream faster he got drunk really quickly, and finally passed out (I'm guessing several shots down the road) with the nebuliser still going. I know he went to ICU, don't know what his outcome was, though.

[chris_at_lucas_RN]

Sounds like it could be self-limiting, then....

There are those Darwin awards for people who die in mysteriously stupid ways? Perhaps there ought to be a list of mechanisms by which one could do so.... I nominate this thing.