Patient's Blood Shocks Docs
While trying to insert an arterial line into a 42 year-old Canadian man who was suffering from compartment syndrome, surgeons needed an urgent procedure to save his legs from permanent damage.
They were having trouble inserting the line, but what happened next seemed like science fiction.
The man began oozing dark green blood out of the catheter, not unlike Mr. Spock might have done if he was on the operating table.
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