{"id":3446,"date":"2012-08-15T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2012-08-15T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:31:31","slug":"fatal-colonic-explosion-during-colonoscopic-polypectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2012\/08\/15\/09\/50\/fatal-colonic-explosion-during-colonoscopic-polypectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Colonic Explosion During Colonoscopic Polypectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a title=\"Fatal Colonic Explosion During Colonoscopic Polypectomy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/499716\">A patient is described who sustained the first reported colonic explosion during colonoscopic polypectomy. Mannitol solution was used for bowel preparation, and the colon was completely clean. During snare removal of a cecal polyp using high-frequency current a loud explosion occurred. In spite of emergency surgery with transfusion of 45 units of blood, uncontrollable hemorrhage persisted from multiple bleeding points, and the patient died.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"&quot;Pardon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/14\/science\/curious-behavior-review-a-fearless-look-at-the-bodys-mundane-functions.html?_r=1\">via<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m glad people are <a title=\"Colonic gas explosion during therapeutic colonoscopy with electrocautery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17879396\">reviewing this problem<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"'s only wafer thin\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/meehawl.com\/Asset\/Mr%20Creosote%20Exploded.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-3453\" title=\"Mr Creosote\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mr-Creosote-Small-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mr-Creosote-Small.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Mr-Creosote-Small.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient is described who sustained the first reported colonic explosion during colonoscopic polypectomy. Mannitol solution was used for bowel preparation, and the colon was completely clean. During snare removal of a cecal polyp&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,10],"tags":[1883],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fart","category-medicine","tag-wtf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}