World Storm #1: A Medical Review (and Some Serious Complainin’)
October 11th, 2006
Just a quick one tonight. This scene is from the Stormwatch: Post-Human Division preview in World Storm #1*. The art, I believe, is by Doug Mahnke. It’s not labeled well, but he’s doing the art on the Stormwatch comic and it looks like his penciling.
- I’ve covered this before, but it’s been a while: There are no air bubbles in IV bottles. It’s a closed system — fluid-to-fluid — there’s no air to bubble up. Anyway, air in the veins is not a good idea.
- On the postive side, I give the artist credit for drawing a proper triple lumen catheter and a good nasogastric tube correctly taped into place.
*I have to say that I felt really cheated by this comic as it sets a new low in not-getting-your-money’s worth: all it consists of are two brief previews and 8 house ads for upcoming series (ads that strangely credit the artists and colorists but never mention the writers). Plus 12 pages of actual ads and a Wildstorm newsletter. And the cover — while I like Arthur Adams and wish we saw more of his art, this Fairchild-centric cover is downright embarrassing.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Since I couldn’t locate an email for you, have you ever done a medical look
at the disfigurement of Jonah Hex? Although his scarring is wonderful to look at,
could that have been caused by a heated tomahawk being pressed against his face?
October 12th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
It’s been my experience that there’s no such thing as an embarrassing Fairchild-centric cover.
Then again, I’m a man of peculiar tastes when it comes to this sort of thing.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Actually, glass IV bottles will always have air bubbles. There has to be an air inlet, otherwise the IV would stop flowing due to the buildup of negative pressure inside the bottle as the volume of fluid decreases.
Very few IV medications require glass bottles anymore, however, and for the flexible plastic IV bags, no air inlet is necessary.
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