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Working the night shift after a full day of work? Not very nice.
Voluntarily helping out with the night shift after a full day of work without the benifit of having the day off afterward? Not very clever.
Three Torsio ventriculi in a night? Absolutely insane.

*wanders off to nap for an hour before starting with the next day*

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I can totally sympathize with the first two things. I worked a 30 hour trauma shift yesterday. I average a 30 hour shift every third day. It stinks. But dude, what is Torsio ventriculi? I'm guessing it's something that's twisted. ;) But I've never heard of it before.

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Oh hell, every three days? I'm quite happy that due to schedule mess ups I don't have to start on a regular schedule like that for a few months.

And a Torsio ventriculi is a gastric torsion/volvulus, which I don't think humans tend to develop, though it's one of most common reasons of death in dogs.

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Yeah, the overnight call schedule averages out to every three days. Luckily only about every other call shift is a trauma night.

I suspect you're right about humans not developing gastric torsion. I can't even recall if I've seen it in textbooks. Colonic volvulus, on the other hand, is fairly common in humans.

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Luckily only about every other call shift is a trauma night.
If humans are only half as bad as recognizing what's wrong with themselves and if it's serious as they are in their pets, that's not much of a consolation I'd guess.


Gastric torsion iss one of the few things our anatomy seems to spare us from. Personally, I'm quite happy about it.

Dogs and cats mostly get volvuli following a parvovirosis infection. Otherwise they just tend to eat random stuff have foreign bodies located somewhere in their guts. Of course, once you get to horses, anything going on in the digestive tract is fair game. How these animals survive in the wild is beyond me.
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