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Sedate Your Kids While They Play
If your child won't sit still at the dentist, the doctor, or the kitchen table, you need the PediSedate Helmet. The device consisting of a colorful headset that connects to a game component or a portable CD player. After a snorkel attachment goes into the child's mouth, the helmet will monitor respiratory function and distribute nitrous oxide or anesthetic gas. The company website states, "The child comfortably becomes sedated while playing with a Nintendo Game Boy system or listening to music. This dramatically improves the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare providers."
Do they make an adult model? Where's my checkbook....
I smell Joey Skaggs at work.
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... seems to suggest otherwise that the device doesn't really work properly. They need a picture of a kid with eyes like X_X and maybe his tongue hanging out for good measure.
Then I'd buy it. For... medical purposes. Yes.
Is CE marked, UL listed, and Pedobear approved!
...why do they need the video game? Once it kicks in you could amputate at the knee and recieve only chuckles in response.
How come this kind of posts even make it to the main page? That too into Game section, in which way this falls into game category? aah forget it.
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It's a joke.
I think.
I hope.
God, don't let this be true.
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because they put it under games..
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What happened to good ol parenting and talking the kid through the procedure with soothing words like, "just one more and we'll be done"
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what the hell ever happened to smacking your kid upside his head and making him behave? ughhhh i'm really feeling my age when i can now say things like "in my day we didn't have video game sedation helmets...."
Bender: And so I ask you this one question: Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
It is a medical device, it isn't meant for the general public. PediSedate is a medical device consisting of a colorful, toy-like headset that connects to a game component such as the Nintendo Game Boy system or a portable CD player. Once the child places it on his or her head and swings the snorkel down from its resting place atop the head, PediSedate transparently monitors respiratory function and distributes nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas. The child comfortably becomes sedated while playing with a Nintendo Game Boy system or listening to music. This dramatically improves the hospital or dental experience for the child, parents and healthcare providers. The result is a system that provides a calming influence over the children, monitors the child continuously, allows the procedure to be performed by less skilled personnel, increases the speed with which procedures can be performed and makes the procedure a less stressful experience for all involved. Each headset can be used multiple times per day by replacing the disposable components contained in the disposable kit. PediSedate consists of a state of the art anesthesia administration and monitoring system. A pulse-oximeter within the headset, monitors oxygenation and a capnometer monitors second-to-second respiratory rate ensuring the safety of the patient. This currently is not the standard of care in outpatient settings. The PediSedate anesthesia delivery system delivers Nitrous Oxide and other volatile agents via a patented anesthesia delivery/scavenging mask situated in the snorkel. Inhalation anesthesia is both painless and titrateable. The benefits of volatile anesthetics are that onset and recovery times are rapid, which reduces cost to the healthcare system.
Didn't I read about this somewhere before?
Finally, a way to add some challenge to older games!
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The kid died from respiratory obstruction due to a malformed lower jaw and pneumonia. The article you're linking to mentions that the NO2 did aggravate those factors, but it was hardly the cause. Also, the article is from 1926 and the death occurred in 1923... pneumonia was the 2nd leading cause of death in 1923 as well.
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
If you RTFA it's not a joke, but it's not meant for home use, it's for doctors to use in the doctor's office to put kids under with less anxiety.
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PROTIP: it's not addictive. (Nor is it even metabolised by the body.)
Not much point to it on its own anyway, it only really becomes worthwhile in combination with acid / shrooms.
It's not meant for parents. Easier way to sedate a child for medical purposes. RTFA
Parents use Strawberry flavored milk and sudafed.
I would take more of a compromise tack. Instead of opening a can of whoop-ass on your little delinquent, or using some wishy washy sedation on them, I suggest heroin*. It's both soothing and hardcore.
Also, a benefit of being their drug dealer is that you can cut them off when they have been naughty. It's a great disciplinary tactic, at least until they are big enough to commit drug-related crime to get more.
You can also ensure that your kids have only the purest and safest (relatively) dosages and that they use clean needles too!
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Can you smoke crack through it?
Lots of the ADD over-referrals are because little girls sit still more readily than little boys, and we have lots of female primary school teachers. "Boys will be boys" is replaced with "ADD is much more prevalent in males". The over-referrals be damned, though, the doctors shouldn't drug up every kid referred to them regardless of actual diagnostics.
RTFA!!!!!!!
It is for medical use only. Evryone that is bitching about Parents not being parents, and ADD, smacking kids, etc. Please RTFA
"Is drugs the answer?" No, teaching better grammar is the answer!
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I find paregoric to be much more effective. Just give the kid the whole bottle, and you can finally get a well-deserved rest!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
It's the TYPE of control I object to, not control. My sons, three of them, have all been exceptionally easy to manage without drugs or anything similar. I use spanking and similar old fashioned methods and always have. Frankly, when spanking properly, you don't have to spank so often and eventually not at all. But every time I see a parent attempt to "medicate" behavior I get angry because the potential damage is pretty obvious to me. Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Who needs an Adult version? After all, college students loved the Teletubbies. Any excuse for intoxication.
Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?
Ned's Dad: We can't do it, man! That's discipline! That's like tellin' Gene Krupa not to go [starts banging on the desk] "boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!" We don't believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin' like freaky beatniks!
Dr. Foster: You don't believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned's anger.
Ned's Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas.
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If you're not comfortable with heroin, I'd like to recommend meth! It's got the added advantage of encouraging your children to clean your house and themselves! Citation. Plus, when they're not actually on it they can hum the song that's almost as addicting as the substance itself!
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Kids need to be TAUGHT not medicated.
Wow, you teach your kids to sit still while their teeth are being drilled without any anesthetic? You must, since these are medical devices, and not for parental use. That's pretty hard-core, dude.
I think samzenpus was hired to make kdawson look competent by comparison.
Nitrous oxide is non-addictive. In many people, it gives an enhanced sense of euphoria, though a majority of that feeling comes from near-asphyxiation. It's a bit more potent than Dust-Off, but otherwise gives similar results.
Um,,Just in case you are uninformed, Spanking is no longer politically correct. This is 21st century liberal America, in this country we either DRUG our children or negotiate with them. Please get with the program. PS, the DSS Situation response team is on the way to your home to repossess your kids. Have a nice day :)
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Most diagnoses of ADD and ADHD are pure bullshit. Unquestionably everyone is different and perhaps there are rare instances where medication are actually required to get people within the broad window we call "normal." But as an example, of all the morbidly obese people in the world and especially in the U.S., only a tiny fraction of a single percent of those people have actual "medical" conditions as the root cause. The rest all brought it on to themselves in some way... or their parents did it to them if it was a condition since childhood.
We live in a society that seeks to medicate everything under the sun. We can't medicate knowledge, wisdom or understanding. We can't medicate anyone to better understand what appropriate behavior is. These are the things that developing children will be missing out on when their behavior is altered medically. Furthermore, it will tend to make drug addicts of them and others when they learn that the solution to all of their problems is found in chemicals.
To give you some idea of how strange and alien the "fix it with a pill" approach is to me, consider how weird you might think it is to stick a bunch of needles in your body to fix everything from cuts and scrapes to cancer. (I speak of acupuncture in case you didn't get it.) And the people who believe in acupuncture are believers every bit as strong as you are in your ADD/ADHD diagnosis.
There ARE people who have true ADD and ADHD. But the number of true cases are similar, to those who have true medical causes for morbid obesity. The rest are all diagnoses given to parents who lack the patience to teach their "difficult children." And frankly, the odds are quite likely that these "difficult children" are the results of being born to parents who are "difficult people" themselves. How many ridiculously nervous, anxious, paranoid or aggressive adults do you know? And of those with children, how difficult are those children to deal with? What about children whose parents are absent or otherwise uninvolved?
I am very involved with my sons and I have a very "easy" personality. My sons are also very easy... especially when they are around me -- I seem to be a very calming influence on them. A huge portion of a child's behavior is learned. And while it can be altered medically, there are undoubtedly better ways that result in increased knowledge, wisdom and understanding in the children. So yes, you feel restless or that you want to stand up, escape, run out of the room, throw a random object... learn not to do it. Stop taking pills.
Yes, this is why dentists generally give you acid / shrooms before sedating you with nitrous.
Look, I'm not going to get into the whole debate about punishments. But this isn't even for when the kid did something wrong. It's a kid with a medical problem, which makes a lot of adults anxious too, in an unfamiliar place, etc. It's a kid which is ill, maybe in pain, and scared.
So your solution is obviously to smack him upside the head... Just because in your day they didn't have ways to make an already shitty situation less traumatizing. Better make sure your kid is properly traumatized by the experience too.
Right...
Geeze. This must be a new low even by the standards of Slashdot trolling.
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Absolutely. One of the most common complaints of chronically ill children is that they are lied to. Paraphrasing one 7 year old boy with cancer: "When they say that this won't hurt a bit, what they usually mean is that it will only hurt for a moment. Why can't they just say that instead?" As soon as they catch you lying, they will never trust your reassurances about anything else. A woman could come to the hospital room for 30 minutes to help fill out insurance paperwork, but the kid is going to be afraid the whole time because he doesn't believe you when you tell him that the visitor isn't doing to do anything painful to him.