Anyone for Anaesthetic?!

[MajorClanger]

"Ten red-haired women between 19 and 40 years of age and ten more with dark hair were given a commonly-used inhaled anaesthetic in the study. After each dose of the anaesthetic, the women were given a standard electric shock."New Scientist Story

Just how standard are these electric shocks and can anyone get them on the NHS?!

MC

[bengie]

Just how standard are these electric shocks and can anyone get them on the NHS?!

Dunno whether you can get them now, but I got a series of electric shocks on the NHS when they were trying to work out why my hands didn't work...

(They were timing nerve impulses or summat)

They did 10 shocks, 1 sec apart for each of the levels.

They ranged from a couple of volts to test 'em in my fingers, upto 400v to test 'em in my leg.

Mind you this was 10 years ago, so with cut-backs, it's probably done with a PP3, and a couple of bits of wire now...

I didn't think to ask whether these were 'Standard' though!!

[Spoonman]

Is this some kind of set-up for a blonde joke???

[bengie]

Dunno about Major Clanger's post, but mine's true...



Edited to add:

The doctors thought I had something called Guillian-Barre syndrome. (And no, that doesn't mean you turn into fancy shell shaped white/milk chocolate bars)

The electric shock thing is called a 'electromyogram' (EMG)

Details on the problem they thought I had:

www.gbs.org.uk/blue.html

though, the results from the EMG didn't match, so I didn't have what they thought!

>> Edited by bengie on Thursday 17th October 07:04

[MajorClanger]

Dunno whether you can get them now, but I got a series of electric shocks on the NHS when they were trying to work out why my hands didn't work...

Girlfriend's dad had similar tests for Carpel Tunnel Syndrome... but yes! the tests on the Gingers were true... you're such a sensitive bunch

MC