• @[email protected]
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    9 days ago

    So its… kinda like a tracheotomy, but for your gut, so… gastrotomy?

    Ah, ‘gastrostomy’.

    A medically necessary, emergency fart valve.

    Amazing.

      • LousyCornMuffins
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        19 days ago

        G (I’m no veterinarian but I’d guess you’d number which stomach it’s going into since G means gastric) tube?

      • @[email protected]
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        39 days ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracentesis

        Do you mean this?

        Either way, TIL!

        Though, if I am understanding this right, paracentesis typically is targetted at… some kind of fluid build up basically outside of the actual gastrointestinal tract, in the paracenteal cavity, the space between your abdominal muscles and organs…

        … the procedure does seem to outwardly more resemble this cow fart valve in appearence, but it doesn’t actually directly pierce, go into the intenstine directly.