Medical Mystery

• alfagal

  3 Dec 05, 20:15

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  Hehehe... earlier one not counted, only every 3, 6, 9... special mystery question then got prize...

  
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:16

  haih..reno will not pay up one..
  
  boo! boo! down with reno!
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:16

  Originally posted by renorenal:
  [b]NEW MYSTERY
  
  Why is arterial blood brighter in color compared to venous blood?
  
  What is the significance for this? [/b]

  oxygen!
• Kuali Baba

  3 Dec 05, 20:17

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  NEW MYSTERY
  
  As a paramedic you rush to the scene of the accident and see this victim lying on the road conscious and he tells you that there is blood coming out from his abdomen. He is compressing it hard to prevent severe and excessive blood loss.
  
  You gently asked him to remove his hand and immediately you see blood gushing out like a fountain. What kind of blood vessel do you think is being lacerated here? Provide a reasonable explanation.

  It has to be an artery, because the heart pumps blood at high pressure through them to the organs.
  
  It sounds too general to be true...
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:17

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  oxygen!

  That's right, but what is the significance in clinical practice? Just make a rough guess, I'm sure you would know this by watching House MD...
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:18

  mon dieu! Kb is such a nerd
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:18

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  That's right, but what is the significance in clinical practice? Just make a rough guess, I'm sure you would know this by watching House MD...

  easy question..i let my assistant Kb answer that
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:19

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  It has to be an artery, because the heart pumps blood at high pressure through them to the organs.
  
  It sounds too general to be true...

  Precisely, yes! The arteries are made up of thick muscular and elastic coat that has the ability to pump blood from the aorta towards the arterioles located in the peripheries... Venous blood is unable to pump blood that fast and that explains why it has a thin wall...
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:20

  reno..ur gettin high now rite? its like being a host on ur own gameshow huh
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:20

  Originally posted by alfagal:

  

  
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:21

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  reno..ur gettin high now rite? its like being a host on ur own gameshow huh

  Waliau... hahaha... where got... the participants are so smart... hmmm.... try to think of something harder...
• Kuali Baba

  3 Dec 05, 20:22

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  easy question..i let my assistant Kb answer that

  Oxyhaemoglobin is bright red...when oxygen is lost to the tissues the haemoglobin becomes a dark red.
  
  Ice-cream, here I come...
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:22

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  Waliau... hahaha... where got... the participants are so smart... hmmm.... try to think of something harder...

  btw...wat presents ah? jus seduce them to play with empty promises issit?
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:25

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  Oxyhaemoglobin is bright red...when oxygen is lost to the tissues the haemoglobin becomes a dark red.
  
  Ice-cream, here I come...

  
  
  throws sum ice-cream on Mark Teo
  
  there u go Kb
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:26

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  Oxyhaemoglobin is bright red...when oxygen is lost to the tissues the haemoglobin becomes a dark red.
  
  Ice-cream, here I come...

  Ice cream only for special mystery question
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:26

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  
  
  throws sum ice-cream on Mark Teo
  
  there u go Kb

  ...he likes Mark Teo?
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:27

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  btw...wat presents ah? jus seduce them to play with empty promises issit?

  Got lar... me finding ice cream pictures...
• Kuali Baba

  3 Dec 05, 20:27

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  throws sum ice-cream on Mark Teo
  
  there u go Kb

  Eeew...that's no way to treat a brainiac!
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:27

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  ...he likes Mark Teo?

  he like licking ice cream off people..
  
  thats what he said...
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:28

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  Eeew...that's no way to treat a brainiac!

  fine.. i guess i have no choice then..
  
  /throws ice cream on myself
  
  lick me! lick me! dont i look delicious to u?
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:28

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  Oxyhaemoglobin is bright red...when oxygen is lost to the tissues the haemoglobin becomes a dark red.
  
  Ice-cream, here I come...

  That's right... oxyhemoglobin is bright red in color, and when it loses the oxygen to cells it becomes darker red.
  
  Because artery is located deeper to veins, it is sometimes hard to withdraw arterial blood if you don't know physiology and a little bit of anatomy. ABG (Arterial Blood Gas) measures and quantifies the amount of saturated oxygen in the blood and let us know whether the patient is hypoxic or not. A brighter red blood on withdrawal will let doctors know that they have punctured the right vessel.
• Kuali Baba

  3 Dec 05, 20:28

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  Ice cream only for special mystery question

  It's for the special artery question
• alexkusu

  3 Dec 05, 20:29

  Originally posted by renorenal:

  Got lar... me finding ice cream pictures...

  go google.. n click the tab for images.. n type ice cream lor.. no waste too much time lidat
• renorenal

  3 Dec 05, 20:29

  Originally posted by Kuali Baba:

  It's for the special artery question

  You din answered the clinical significance lar... so too bad
• Kuali Baba

  3 Dec 05, 20:30

  Originally posted by alexkusu:

  he like licking ice cream off people..
  
  thats what he said...

  Only one special girl.