What does not happen in life ... Sometimes things happen to us are paradoxical, contrary to logic and defying explanation. Amazing nearby. One has only to look closely.
Here are ten of the most incredible medical cases that have taken place. Hold on, it will be interesting. So let's go!
1. Highest body temperature
The highest body temperature in the history of medicine was recorded in the American Willie Jones (Georgia, Atlanta) in 1980. The thermometer stopped at exactly 46.5 ° C when the patient was admitted to the hospital. Willie Jones recovered and was discharged from the hospital 24 days later.
2. The lowest body temperature
The lowest human body temperature was documented in February 1994 in the city of Regina (Canada). The "owner" of this record low temperature was a two-year-old girl named Karli Kozolofsky. By a lucky coincidence, the baby managed to survive. She spent over six hours in a terrible frost at the door of her house, which accidentally slammed shut. Now attention! Her body temperature at the time of fixation was only 14.2 ° C!
3. The largest number of foreign bodies in the stomach
2533 foreign bodies were found in the stomach of a forty-two-year-old woman who suffered from a psychological disorder - obsessive swallowing of objects. There were 947 pins among the "collection"! With such a load in the stomach, the woman experienced only slight discomfort, which became the reason for going to the doctors.
4. Heaviest object in the stomach
The heaviest third-party object that has been removed from the human stomach by doctors in the history of surgery is a huge hairball that weighed 2.35 kilograms. There is a disease in which people swallow their hair.
5. The largest number of pills taken
Zimbabwean K. Kilner took 565,939 tablets in twenty-one years of his treatment. This is the largest number of pills ever taken by man.
6. The largest number of injections
The largest number of injections were delivered to the Englishman Samuel Davidson. Their number in his entire life was almost 79,000. They injected him with insulin.
7. The longest operation
The longest operation in history lasted nearly 100 hours. It was an operation to remove a cyst on the ovary. After her, the patient's body weight was 140 kilograms. Before the operation, she weighed 280!
8. Most operations
The American Charles Jensen underwent most of the operations of varying complexity. From 1954 to 1994, he underwent 970 operations. Surgical interventions were carried out in connection with the need to remove tumors.
9. Longest cardiac arrest
The longest cardiac arrest occurred in the Norwegian Jan Revsdal. A fisherman by profession, he, fulfilling his professional duties, fell overboard. It was in the Bergen area. In the icy water, his body temperature plummeted to 24 ° C and his heart stopped beating.The cardiac arrest lasted four hours. After Ian was connected to a machine supporting artificial circulation, he came to his senses and began to recover.
10. The biggest overload
David Purley had the greatest overload. The famous racer got into a car accident during the competition in 1977. As a result, on the way, just over 60 centimeters long, his speed, and accordingly the speed of his body, decreased from 173 kilometers per hour to a complete stop. Doctors counted three dislocations, twenty-nine fractures, six cardiac arrests on the way to the hospital.
These are the extraordinary events in the life of ordinary people. Nobody is immune from this. Although it is better not to fall into the book of records in the same section with people whose unique life experiences we have listed.