This is footage of a fatal ventricular fibrillation due to a cocaine overdose. This is a tine-lapsed video (15 min minutes in total)
The heart rate progresses from an average of 72 beats per minute (bpm) to a ventricular flutter (>250 bpm) followed by a ventricular fibrillation (>350 bpm)
This is the last step before the heart flatlines and proceeds into cardiac arrest, when it stops pumping all together.
Cocaine prevents the cleanup of stress chemicals in the brain. The heart becomes quick and inefficient, reducing blood flow, and dies due to a lack of oxygen.
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Damn to think, I've done allot of this shit while drinking and having heart problems, glad I'm sober now
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Glad I quit that stuff
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Proud of you man keep it up!!!
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Happy for you. You have made the best choice of your life. Keep it up 🤗
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I need to start!
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Same here. I have an addictive personality; so the stuff is bad for me.
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I feel you bro. I can get addicted to anything as well.
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found this out the hard way with carbonation, for the longest time i thought it was caffeine i was craving but no just that stupid tv static water
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congrats! keep it up!
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What does it feel like to be on cocaine? Im curious
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It's really euphoric at the beginning and a lot of fun. You want to talk like a fool for hours. Your mouth will run faster then your brain can process. Then you start getting low and it feels like youre trying to keep yourself up for as long as possible. This part is a lot less fun. It gets to the point that you feel panicked, then when your out you want to go raid your bank for more. I used to call that part "chawing"
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Hope you doing good now :) Stay blessed
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Broke is what it feels like.
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I did a lot of art (mostly architectural models) and when on coke I felt like I could go on and on for hours and that I was the BEST model maker in the world. Would also have my phonecalls on loudspeaker at the same time and would just talk shit with family for hours. The amount I took made bad comedowns, was severely depressed for a few days after (and that was on top of my already existing clinical depression.) I have to admit, disgustingly, that I used to take it at work if I was working LONG shifts (sadly, I worked in healthcare.) Luckily I put all that shit behind me years ago.
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Take the strongest cup of coffee you ever had, times 2 or 3, right after the best night sleep you ever got, for about 30 minutes.
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A light-med high that you can easily ignore. Makes you a sterling conversationalist at the cost of making sense.
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Exactly that's a great way of putting it.
That light to mid will change to heavy if you do a quarter in a few days like I used to.
Talking about this in detail makes me Wana hit a NA meet but I hate the Jesus talk lol
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You feel like Superman for like 30 minutes. Then depending on your chemical make up, you may really want more, or if you're like me, you don't. That's the major difference
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It feels like overrated
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Its like having a strong cup of coffee and some amphetamines
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Ayo, I'm proud! Good shit! Stay clean bro
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Thanks everyone! Going on 3 years
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Awesome :)
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Me too, man. Took one too many bumps one night, limbs started to tingle, like they were all falling asleep, jaw was locking up while trying to talk... haven't touched it since.
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I need to aswell
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amazing, keep it up 👍
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No one likes a quitter.
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"AA is for quitters" XD
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I dunno about that, the human heart seems to be a fan. As does everyone around ya.
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It looked like it was gonna explode
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It was gonna if they didn't open that chestie
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Fuck cocaine, I've quit, we can all quit. Keep going brothers our heart will thank us
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Yeah fuck cocaine… it's time for meth
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Jajaja muy cierto
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😂
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Thank you! Now I know that I have 15 minutes of the best high known to mankind before my heart literally fucking implodes!
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LOL you would think so, but you get nauseous right away and dry heave if you have nothing to vomit and it hurts. A lot. Really a lot.
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Thank you for the info! I'll just make sure to take 10g more than the previous amount!
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You're a complete idiot and deserve all the coming suffering if you think a heart rate of 350 bpm (!!!) is going to be "the best high known to mankind" 🤣👍🤡 but please by all means, proceed...
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I'll make sure to post it for the content 🤗😋🤪🙌
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Lol I know joking but I overdosed on cocaine and Dexedrine (me and gf did blow then when ran out we crushed up my Dexedrine, really dumb idea) and I didn't go to the hospital but it was the scariest experience I've had in years. If you're gonna overdose don't overdose on uppers.
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It's not enjoyable lol usually you just pass out, i've never had anybody die in front of me from overdosing on cocaine but I've seen people overdose and live, to the point where I've had to drag them into a cold shower because they passed out.
And then usually when they wake up they look like death and they're sick as fuck lol The craziest one was probably my own uncle lol
Dude is like 6'7 - 300 pounds. There was no fucking way I'm dragging him into the bathroom or even a bathtub😂 So I had to fill up pitchers of ice/water and run back to his room, dump them onto him while he was laying in the middle of his bedroom on the floor, at the same time I'm bitch slapping him in the face yelling WAKE THE FUCK UP lol I will never forget the blank stare on his face just looking into nothingness.
After about 5 or 10 minutes of that he slowly came back. I'm not a doctor so I don't know if his heart stopped, (doubt it, but it could've) I don't know if he just got too high and passed out. I just did what I was always told to do in that situation lol
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Damn sounds rough
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The vomiting up nothing but air is fucking horrific. That in itself makes your heartbeat skyrocket and furthers your paranoia. So glad I quit.
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For real?
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That's why i stay away from drugs!
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Notice how the heart engorges with blood as it stops beating efficiently. Cocaine causes arrythmia of the heart but it can also cause the coronary vessels to spasm severe actually leading to lack of blood supply to the heart musculature.
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Brilliant
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Surprised that shit didn't pop
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Looks like a baseball
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Im going on 10 years clean alcohol as well I even used to heat up a plate in the microwave to prepare the lines on a hot plate crazy
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Fine
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I had autoimmune thyroiditis several years ago. I woke up one night with a heart rate over 200 bpm while laying down. When I stood up, it went so fast that the blood was no longer circulating and I could feel my arms and legs go numb. Scary as fuck. This happened 6 times in the summer of 2017 and I landed in the ER each time. Thankfully, beta blockers stopped it.
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do you have constant anxiety about your heart? like what if that were to come back or some other heart issue
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I did for a while but I've been free of the disease for a number of years. I always carry a bottle of beta blockers around with me and my Apple Watch to track my pulse just in case which keeps me from being afraid.
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Im 18 and im so happy that i quit that shit man
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Imagine hitting this fucker with an adrenaline shot
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Believe it or not, adrenaline is actually given to treat this type of cardiac arrest. Specifically, 1 in 10,000 (1mg in 10ml) via IV/IO. Adrenaline is a sympathomimetic that stimulates both alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors. As a result, myocardial and cerebral blood flow is enhanced during CPR and CPR becomes more effective due to increased peripheral resistance which, improves perfusion pressures.
In short, it makes CPR, and by proxy, drug absorption for treatment, much more effective.
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I love when a smart fucker says some cool shit
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hes really just regurgitating the same shit we get taught.
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Sorry to hear your short
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LMFAO,
Never typing shit on my phone ever again. Fixed it hahahaha.
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Dude, you can write, it's actually interesting
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I appreciate that, man!
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I was waiting for it to explode! This is cool as fuck though
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yeah
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great post, though i do wonder how this footage was captured...
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It was taken from a thoracotomy.
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yes, clearly. but what are the ethics of this video? i know ethics are a silly thing to think about on a gore site but i'd love to know what facility decided to set up a camera and crack this guy open in lieu of medical intervention.
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You're correct here. A thoracotomy is typically done for conditions such as cardiac tamponade, and not VF. this intervention is pretty unusual.
There may be some underlying factor, such as a myocardial infarction which they're treating, and just so happened to have an open thoracotomy patient go into VF. It's an odd one.
The ethics of recording this is that the patients identity is hidden, and it's likely for educational purposes. If we never captured things like this, we would have no real world examples to base things off of - it's very useful to see it in action, as opposed to reading a textbook. However that patient likely didn't consent obviously, so that's a moral grey area there. It's rare to see VF in action this way, so it's certainly a very interesting video regardless.
Props to you for even considering these factors in the first place. Most people wouldn't.
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okay i was already scared to try it but now i'm definitely not😭
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This is what killed my mother last year, but it was Meth, and her habit wasn't even that heavy. I myself am on the same drug and scared all the time that I'll die one of these days.... But withdrawls are horrible, especially the psychological part, no it's not as bad as Opiate withdrawl but unfortunetly all the Meth in my city is laced with Fentanyl and that Fentanyl is now becoming laced with Tranq dope, so you see where I'm going with this, I'm scared of going through withdrawl because there is currently no medicine for Meth withdrawl like there is for Opiates, the only thing that ever helped me was Ritalin, but no doctor I've talked to will prescribe it for me, I feel trapped and I'm ready to get on my knees crying and beg a doctor to give me Ritalin before it's too late.
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Stay strong my man, I hope you good luck with that🥲
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Losing a parent to drugs is something that's hard to explain. For me at least, there's the pain of losing the parent but then also the sadness they fell too deep into their addiction but also the frustration and anger that they could allow it to happen knowing they had children and a life. I lost my father to AIDS after he shared needles whilst using heroin. I hope you get ritalin my friend. Just to let you know, in my country there are online pharmacies that sell absolutely everything and no prescription is needed- not sure if it's available in your country (I'm assuming the USA as meth is more prevalent there than here in the UK?) I wish you all the best and I truly mean that.
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