A new piece of medical equipment is being tested right now called the Pedisedate. Basically, it is a headset that is placed on a child before they are admitted to surgery. The device connects to a Game Boy or portable CD player (yup, not a Nintendo DS or iPod -- apparently the Pedisedate also transports you to 1996) and a snorkel-like piece swings forward and is placed over the child's nose. As the kid plays videogames or listens to music, nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas, is emitted through the snorkel and puts the child to sleep.
Nope, I am not joking.
While I think its intentions are noble (making kids comfortable during surgery is a wonderful thing) the concept of the Pedisedate is absolutely ridiculous.
But you think just reading about this is what is so out of control? Oh, my friends, you would be wrong. Please hit the jump and check out the promotional video.
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Well I don't know about you, but for a guy who lives in a van down by the river and collects SEARS catalogs just for the pictures of boys and girls, it sounds great!
Back in my day they just put the thing on my face and challenged me to see if I could count backwards from 100, or they told me to take 5 really big breaths in.
"Hey, your daddy told me to come pick you up after school. I'm one of his works buds. He's got a long night at the office. Come on! Jump in the car. Look at this crazy videogame toy I've got for you to try. Your dad said you'd love it. There you go, just strap yourself in tight there. Take some deep breaths. Um, yeah, your dad wants me to take you camping out in the woods so we can play games all night ... "
Why would this necessarily be needed? Couldn't they just strap a less menacing, regular gas mask on a child and let them play with a DS or watch a portable DVD player? This gives me the heebie-jeebies.
And... how this is an improvement over the normal gas mask approach is...? You're out in a matter of seconds anyways. You might be able to get a couple WarioWare games in, but that's about it.
There's too much bizarreness in this to comment on everything without feeling like I'm doing a stand-up routine. I'm particularly confused about the Gameboy Colour and as to why the don't just put normal gas masks on them in the first place.
"Your kids will never have to experience pain, suffering, or real life!*"
*Until they get older and realize there isn't a game boy attached to a gas nozzle for every painful situation, which will spark them into a murderous rampage, fueled by their false perspective of a smoothed over existence being shattered.
Well, while I admire their efforts to make doing medical procedures on kids easier, and I applaud any effort to render kids unconscious, what ever happened to just good old beating them unconscious...
I already love the idea. Why all the negativity from everyone? What's so outragious about it? It's just a way for the kid to be comfortable. Sure, the video was kind of strange in the way it was put together, but to kids I'm sure that shit looks rad as fuck.
It wouldn't even have to be a game either. Could just be a DVD player.
I don't know, I've got no problem with it. Seems like alot of people just jumped on the hater-aid band wagon :/
I can't believe no one has said this yet. So imagine you are this kid and you just got past 100 lines in tetris and the doctor says "ok so I'm gonna just slide this over your nose..." Next thing you know you wake up to a game over screen. Thats bullshit, don't fuck with a kid while they are playing games.
How is different from just holding a mask on the little bastards face for 5 seconds before they pass out? I should know, it's a pain in the arse gettin' them in the van when they're all kicky and screamy.
Yeah I'm really missing how if the kid is old enough to play games and keep the headset on why don't they just use a typical gas mask to put them under? Do they think kids are really this stupid?
I like how all smug and proud the doctor looks at the end, like he invented laughing gas or something.
Hm. It needs tubes filled with mysterious mutagenic chemicals designed to increase body mass and size, turning these innocent schoolchildren into....BANE! *gets thrown through a brick wall*
You heartless bastards , that sounds like a good thing to me , when I was 7 I literally almost opened my leg in two , and if on the surgery I had tetris and Mario Land 2 , I would get a little bit calm-er ...
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3:00 PM on 04.15.2009
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But that video! That kid was totally high. He was waving his hand around and just watching it, like, "Man, this is so trippy..."
It probably is. I just thought it was funny that they advertise it using an old school Game Boy and portable CD player. :)
@JoZo - Yeah, the product name is odd...the whole thing is really though.
Especially the name of the product.
Kids today. Such pansies.
I wasn't ready...
Why not tell them to look the other way and then clock them behind the head?
*Until they get older and realize there isn't a game boy attached to a gas nozzle for every painful situation, which will spark them into a murderous rampage, fueled by their false perspective of a smoothed over existence being shattered.
Just seems like a bit of overkill to me. ;)
It wouldn't even have to be a game either. Could just be a DVD player.
I don't know, I've got no problem with it. Seems like alot of people just jumped on the hater-aid band wagon :/
*Game Boy not included
Hope it's a commercial product.
I know that song.
Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole Over the Rainbow
I was about to start searching.
/hits replay
/door knocks
Ooop, brb guys, the bears are here.
I like how all smug and proud the doctor looks at the end, like he invented laughing gas or something.
I wasn't ready .____.
Ok, i gonna ask my doctor if he can let me play Atari when he open my head to check my brain
I only remember counting back to 93 before getting zonked out so I believe they will be out before they can hit start to launch the game...lol