[net.med] Drug-Induced Erection

colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (09/29/86)

>                                                          Complications
> were few and included four patients with sustained erections that
> required intervention.

I don't like the sound of "intervention!" Did they have to amputate?


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larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (09/29/86)

In article <1019@sunybcs.UUCP>, colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > Complications were few and included four patients with sustained erections
> > that required intervention.
> 
> I don't like the sound of "intervention!" Did they have to amputate?

	Probably just aspirated the blood from the corpus cavernosum with
a 50 CC syringe and #12 gauge needle, or possibly a trocar and cannula... :-)

[It hurt to even _think_ about the above!]

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werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (10/02/86)

> In article <1019@sunybcs.UUCP>, colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > > Complications were few and included four patients with sustained erections
> > > that required intervention.
> > 
> > I don't like the sound of "intervention!" Did they have to amputate?
> 
> 	Probably just aspirated the blood from the corpus cavernosum with
> a 50 CC syringe and #12 gauge needle, or possibly a trocar and cannula... :-)
> [It hurt to even _think_ about the above!]


	You are right.  It hurt to even think about the above.  Of course,
it wouldn't work, since it would just fill from the arterial side.
	Anyway, since Phentolamine (an alpha-adrenergic blocker) caused
the erection, a little shot of Norepinephrine (in a little tiny needle
in an almost inconsequential syringe) will constrict the arteries and
return the patient to flaccidity (incidentally pronounced FlakSIDity.
	Incidentally, as I wrote to the Colonel, a sympathethic discharge
causing natural release of Norepinephrine is what normally causes 
orgasm and the subsidence of erection.  This is just working with the
body's own chemistry, as it were.

	
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bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) (10/07/86)

In article <1301@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> In article <1019@sunybcs.UUCP>, colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > > Complications were few and included four patients with sustained erections
> > > that required intervention.
> > 
> > I don't like the sound of "intervention!" Did they have to amputate?
> 
> 	Probably just aspirated the blood from the corpus cavernosum with
> a 50 CC syringe and #12 gauge needle, or possibly a trocar and cannula... :-)
                                                                 ^^^^^^^

I thought it was spelled cannibal.    :-)