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Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation

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95 points mustaphah | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | source
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timerol ◴[22 Oct 25 00:49 UTC] No.45663701[source]▶
I really expected this to be overblown clickbait, but the article delivers on the title about as well as it could. I have seen many more breathless articles on treatments that weren't already conducting human safety trials as well as having animal effectiveness trials concluded.

And yeah, it turns out that mammals can absorb oxygen through their butts. Weird

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1. foxyv ◴[22 Oct 25 02:24 UTC] No.45664254[source]▶
I know that rectal rehydration is a good method when sterile IV fluids are not available. Hopefully it's much safer than current ventilator or ECMO treatments.