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Hospital Gives Man Drip-Feed of Vodka

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Doctors plugged an Italian tourist into a drip-feed of vodka to save him at a hospital in Australia that ran out of the medicinal alcohol it would normally have used for treatment.The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was brought to Mackay Base Hospital in northeastern Queesland state and was diagnosed as having ingested a large quantity of ethylen glycol, a common ingredient of antifreeze that can cause renal failure. via

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