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Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match (people.com)

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Any med school student should know how to macguyver an airway in an emergency. They literally teach it in civilian lifesaving classes these days. My guess is this guy was such an asshole, his entire medical staff was like "bruh I am not making the hole, you do it."

[–] philpo@feddit.org 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know which med school or civilian lifesaving courses you attend - but emergency cricothyrotomy surely isn't a skill that is taught and mastered by any of these I teach.

Cric is a delicate skill that needs repetition and knowledge - it's far from easy and not even close to what is shown in some bad TV shows.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Eh I have no knowledge about tracheotomy besides what I've seen on TV but I mean if push comes to shove I'm just gonna jab a pen tube in the victim's throat man, it's gotta be worth a try. /s

[–] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

Hell, I'd jab a pen in your throat right now if I suspected it would somehow improve your health

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

iirc Epi-pen is the usual treatment, and those things are pretty easy to obtain.

I think that OP philpo is on to something, that the medical staff was a bit slow to deal with the situation.

[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

With anaphylactic shock, the timeline could be literally seconds. He could be dead before they even figure out what's wrong.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, I think it was ignorance and/or hubris. He was either unaware of his allergy (miraculously never stung before, or developed allergy later in life), or he was kind of aware, but never assumed anything could go wrong.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor.