Tranquilizer dart

[Kiwi, BSN, RN]

Upon reading this excellent article from The Onion...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44692

I am asking (while trying to keep a strait face), what do you think is in a tranquilizer dart? What on earth could take a 500 lb wild animal out in ~10 seconds? Before googling "tranquilizer dart", I wanted to throw the question out there to all you sedative pharmacokinetic wizards!

[UCDSICURN]

Guess i should have read the article before answering....disregard.

[JiffyGriff]

That article is hilarious.............and what's even more hilarious is the fact that we're all amazed by what type of "anesthetic" could knock down a gorrilla.......it all starts with a little morphine, then once we've awed in amazement over that we're on to dilauded telling people how awesome of a drug it is and how little it takes to cause hallucinations in our patients.......then it's the diprivan, and the succs, and so forth.......next thing you know we're wanting to push gorilla tranquilizers.......we're all a bunch of apes if you ask me.....

[mandana]

It's even funnier with your little Curious George picture next to it.

Amanda

[Kiwi, BSN, RN]

it all starts with a little morphine, then once we've awed in amazement over that we're on to dilauded telling people how awesome of a drug it is and how little it takes to cause hallucinations in our patients.......then it's the diprivan, and the succs, and so forth.......next thing you know we're wanting to push gorilla tranquilizers.......we're all a bunch of apes if you ask me.....

It was amazing to me that the Gorilla himself actually enjoyed the occasional tranq dart. What a junkie! To circumvent the dilaudid, succs, diprivan - and demonstrate attention-seeking behaviors so he could go straight for the dart...WOW! Heck, even curious george was curious about the bottle of ether! The amount of unreported chemical dependency in the primate population must be staggering.

[London88]

Hilarious!

[snowfreeze, BSN, RN]

Best article I have read in a long time!!!! Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

[TinyNurse, RN]

the onion is an awesome place!!! but think about it, we DO take these animals out of their habitat, maybe they DO need to take the edge off.............. we cannot expect these animals to act "normal" in a zoo.........it's just wrong.

[Kiwi, BSN, RN]

the onion is an awesome place!!! but think about it, we DO take these animals out of their habitat, maybe they DO need to take the edge off.............. we cannot expect these animals to act "normal" in a zoo.........it's just wrong.

You have a point. When interviewed on the need for an occasional tranq dart, he stated with a grunt, "Take the day they left me in a temporary holding cage while they cleaned the display habitat. First off, it's a 10-by-8-foot space, so I'm rebounding off the walls like a racquetball inside of 20 minutes. Then, they put the cage right to a holding pen with another alpha-male silverback in it. Hello?!"

-Gongogo, Alpha-male Siverback Gorilla

[prmenrs, RN]

I can think of a NICU attending or two, or even an overzealous resident I would have LOVED to hit w/one of those things. I would have saved some special ones for the surgeons!

Hilarious!