It's no coincidence that the most popular post on this anesthesia blog by far is "The Dirtiest Part Of The Body". It has been viewed tens of thousands of times even though it really has nothing to do with anesthesiology. Now Anesthesiology News has published its ten most popular articles of 2013. Does it surprise anyone that the most read article last year had the provocative name "Study Probes Anesthesia-Erection Link"? I can almost hear Beavis and Butthead going "Huh Huh Huh Huh. He said probes." just from reading that title.
Now that everybody is awake and paying attention, I might as well give a quick review of this salacious piece. The article in questions is actually quite short. In fact, I didn't even notice it when it was published in October last year. It is a quick review of an abstract that was presented at the ASA meeting that month. The study was published by Chinese doctors who compared the rates of erections in men undergoing urologic surgery who received either sevoflurane, isoflurane, or propofol. Of the 300 men studied, sixteen developed erections during the operation. Isoflurane only caused one erection. Meanwhile, sevoflurane produced four erections and propofol was the most productive, with eleven. That's it. That one little paragraph garnered more views than any articles about Obamacare, CRNA's, Doc Fix, or anything related to anesthesia and analgesia. Just goes to prove that anesthesiologists are not only mentally well endowed, we are also human.
"mentally well endowed." nice touch.
ReplyDeleteIs it not ironic that induced erections in the O.R., peneal measurements are made without a waiver, and training videos make phalloi the objects of derision or adoration whilst the sex object is unconscious (!) -- but a guy taking a quick, quiet piss behind his truck door is handcuffed, jailed, charged, tried, and thrown onto the Sex Registry for life? Feminist lawyers will next try to correlate tax rates to penis size; the bigger the dick, the bigger the tax -- with females tax exempt. Really, girls, we can't have a "patriarchy" with a 50% divorce rate and would-be fathers shying away from marriage in favor of all the cheaper versions of sex -- and they are ALL cheaper than marriage! N.B.: Propofol almost always produces an erection -- even in 75 year olds, and we don't need "Chinese studies"; just ask the giggling nurses.
ReplyDeleteCyclopropane always managed to raise the flag in the good old days prompting surgeons to bellow, "I want this patient put to sleep!"
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about that specific side effect for cyclopropane having never worked with it. It's not exactly something that is highlighted in medical texts. I'm sure some prurient staff got a good chuckle out of it.
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