Man High on PCP Swallows Smartphone

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A 35 year-old man with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) after abusing phencyclidine (PCP). Responding to command auditory hallucinations, he attempted to swallow his 4 cm × 8 cm smartphone. On arrival, he was agitated but alert, handling his secretions poorly and in moderate respiratory distress. An electronic device was clearly protruding from his oropharynx. He was tachypneic (24 respirations/min) with an oxygen saturation of 92 % on room air, a heart rate of 131 beats per minute and a blood pressure of 137/64 mmHg.

Emergency physicians immediately attempted to remove the device with Magill forceps, but were unsuccessful. A “trauma code” was announced bringing a surgical intensivist, an anesthesiologist, and appropriate nursing staff to the bedside, while simultaneously indicating that an operating room (OR) should be prepared. The patient was emergently transported to the OR and “double prepped” for both emergent cricothyrotomy and oropharyngeal intubation. The device was successfully removed under procedural sedation without the need for surgical intervention. A mucosal tear was noted in the posterior pharynx. The patient became markedly agitated post-procedure, and, given the recent trauma, was intubated for airway protection. He subsequently developed bilateral pneumothoraces and significant subcutaneous emphysema throughout his neck and upper torso.

Diagnosis: Posterior pharyngeal rupture and bilateral pneumothoraces following attempted foreign body ingestion (Fig. 1). Computerized tomography of the neck and chest revealed a defect in the posterior wall of the oropharynx at the C2 level, along with significant mediastinal air and right-greater-than-left pneumothoraces. The patient was treated with a right-sided chest tube and was observed in the intensive care unit. He was treated for 7 days with broad-spectrum antibiotics, specifically, piperacillin and tazobactam. He did not require surgical repair of the pharyngeal defect and was discharged from the hospital 2 weeks later.

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[Don_Barracuda]

PCP is some crazy shit.

[vansaykeo]

Was the smartphone an Apple?

[CaptainGinyu]

I wonder what in life pushes people to do drugs like this? I can’t judge them but I want to understand.

[Shadow_Ace]

probably still gets better reception than metro PCPS…

[Murt]

When I was about 15 I was riding the school bus back home at about 4:30 PM in the dead of traffic. At one point we were stopped at a red light, but once it turned green we didn’t move because someone was blocking traffic. I look out of the window ahead of the bus to see that a guy has just stopped his car for seemingly no reason - he gets out of the car, looking really pissed off at somebody for something, all the while cars are honking the hell out of him.

The guy walks into the middle of the lane, pulls his shirt off, then his sweatpants, then his underwear, and starts jerking his dick in the middle of traffic in the heat of LA rush hour. He was looking at the other cars, who had all stopped honking at the sight of this basehead beating it in the middle of the street. Our bus changed lanes and we drove on.

On the news that night they ran the story about the incident, and it turns out he had gotten high on PCP. We had always called it ‘Sherm’ or ‘water,’ but after that we started to call it ‘butt naked.’ Never get ‘butt naked.’

[HyperShieldSlash]

PCP is one of the many drugs that will ruin your life, it is almost as bad for you as Reefer

[Vynce]

I know that guy. He pocket dialed me swallowing the phone. I got the call and just heard “Gwahhhaggugh. Bwawalagh.” I was like whaat.

[King9999]

iChoke

[mowr]

What a fucking champion. Swallowing a goddamned smartphone are you serious?

[deadfrog]

[details=Spoiler]1 ) Get high
2 ) Feeling hungry
3 ) Pick up phone to order a pizza
4 ) God this ringing is taking foreverrrr
5 ) Y’know what? GULP!
6 ) That was actually pretty good
7 ) Oh shit, could the cell phone waves give me stomach cancer??!?
8 ) I should probably ask a hospital
9 ) [/details]… How am I supposed to call 911?

[chadouken]

I wish I had that dude’s number. I’d be calling the shit out of him.

[DoctaMario]

Honestly, they should tell kids stuff like that in anti-drug classes. Not, “It’ll ruin your life,” or “You’ll spend all your money” but “You’ll think swallowing a motherfucking PHONE is a GREAT idea!” If they’d told me stuff like that, I’d have never touched any of the stuff I’ve touched.

[tataki]

How am I supposed to call 911?

Like this

[Raz0r]

Imagine what he’d do with a dick.

[Tweleve]

I wonder what in life pushes people to do drugs like this? I can’t judge them but I want to understand.

Curiosity, perhaps

[Reticently]

Holy shit, somebody finally found a good use for a wireless recharger.

[Tekno_Virus]

That wasn’t very…

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smart of him!

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[SaikyoStyle]

I clicked this thread like “Please be Florida, Please be Florida”

Interesting read none the less.

[SNAAAAKE]

Was the smartphone an Apple?

with apple maps…not wonder the phone couldn’t find its way out!