I have been exposed to the knowledge that this device, called "IVC filter", goes into your inferior vena cava in certain cases if you're at risk for pulmonary thromboembolism, and now you have to live with it toopic.twitter.com/7OKeyUS2Be
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I have been informed on IRC that "the hook on the end is for when you want to pull it out through the jugular" so I will enjoy never sleeping again
Those anchors are spring loaded and go exactly where you think they’d go and they cause so many problems they make retrievable ones now because of the like 40% complication rate.
[SCREAMING INTERNALLY] no
This is a prank right, like some doctor came up with this as a troll?
The pointy ends seem self explanatory, there's a hell of a lot of force in the major veins and arteries.
Maybe it's folded up when inserted and then the hook is pulled on to make it open up? It looks *incredibly* sketchy to have as part of your body.
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