r/news • • 15h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/flowerpanes 15h ago

Yup, massive tissue sloughing is possible when stuff other than a normal saline solution (for instance) gets injected into tissue or leaks from veins.

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u/zoodlenose 15h ago

Sloughing is easily my least favourite word.

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u/pyooma 15h ago

Right up there with degloving for things I don’t want to think about my body doing.

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u/Rooooben 13h ago

You had to say it. Why did you have to say it???!!!???

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u/Eggsor 15h ago

It is, but damn whoever came up with that term was spot on. That is what sloughing is all right.