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.
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)
I wonder if the writer realized that he would be transporting future readers to 2009 by referencing a DS and an iPod.
Haha a DS or iPod, not a Nintendo Switch or smart phone.
Welcome back to 2024, time travelers.
Actually, can I just go back to 2009? Or better yet, 1996?
The DS came out in 2004 and the iPod in 2001.
Why did you choose 2009 out of all years? That’s two years after the iPhone came out.
2009 was the date the article was posted.
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.
Finally!
A humane way to euthanize our children!
We prefer to call it ‘post-natal abortion’!
Also intra-nasal
But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?
I like the term “fourth trimester abortion”
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Over-engineered nonsense. It “hooks up” to any 3.5mm audio jack. It literally does nothing except create a headset. The sedation happens independently of whether or not you’re playing 6 Gold Coins or listening to Ace of Base.
It’s to make the kid comfortable.
Put this scary shit on
Isn’t very convincing, but add “it comes attached to a Gameboy” and they’d want to out it on.
The headphone jack could have done nothing, but likely had something to do with time release. Kid gets to play for a minute then gets knocked out.
Like sure, you could just hold the kid down and chloroform the kid against their will, but in the scale of modern healthcare, this cost nothing. Even a small increase in compliance is worth it.
Nitrous Oxide doesn’t knock you out, it just (deeply) sedates you and is a moderate pain killer.
With IV administered general anesthesia you’re knocked out in literal seconds, it’s wild if you’ve never experienced it. I’ve been “put under” three times: twice to have my 4 wisdom teeth removed and once for inguinal hernia surgery. It messes you up for a good hour or two post-surgery though.
The effects of Nitrous Oxide are reversed within a few minutes of cessation of exposure to the gas (I’ve done it recreationally numerous times, inhaling it while drunk is a wild experience everything is in slow motion like you’re looking into a strobe light).
I WANT TO BE SEDATED WITH THE GAME BOY!-AVGN
“TWENTY TWENTY TWENTY MORE LEVELS TO GO…”
The website for the device isn’t loading, maybe it explains further but…how does the gameboy even factor into the equation? Does it control the gas in some way? It has to do something other then what you could already do…hand the kid a game boy as the anesthesiologist does their thing?
I’m pretty sure it’s just headphones attached to the nasal mask.
I don’t understand why it has to be connected to anything? Why can’t they just play Gameboy while being sedated normally?
Why aren’t they just being sedated the regular way with no gameboy? Shit takes seconds to kick in.
Kids aren’t rational and doctors visits are scary enough when it’s a simple check up let alone getting put under for surgery.
I’m not saying this is a good solution but if it helps keep the kids calm then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
but like why not just give them a console while you sedate them normally? how does connecting it to a device in any way help? how does it do anything?
I had a lot of surgery when I was a kid, and I can honestly say it never really bothered me, the injection hurt but that was about it. Why would I’m be bothered by it, it was perfectly safe they’d already told me that.
It’s only adults that worry about going into surgery. We know the odds are good will be okay but not 100%. Kids don’t know any of this so they’re perfectly happy with it all.
Because the nurse can’t play Tetris on his free time using regular equipment
All I can think of is Little Shop of Horrors and Orin’s gas mask…
Obligatory “YOU’LL BE A DEEENTIST!”
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Who thinks they can complete more levels that me before losing consciousness?
I kinda want to see this as a new speedrun category.
Now the heart rate monitor is a safety feature!
Underrated comment!!!
can we don’t with that
This connects with a regular 3.5mm jack which means that it could easily be connected to anything, including a DS.
I wonder if there’s something about it having to pass some special testing to qualify as a medical device? DS has wifi, right? Which means that with a DS, there is a pathway to “hack” into it without physical access. (I know, not really, but I would understand why you wouldn’t want to wifi-enable a device that anaesthesizes children.)
Its probably not possible to access the anaestesia device via an analog audio jack. The anastesia control and the device are completely separate.
I was looking at the picture and the headset and device were both the same purple, which made me think it was “all one thing.”
I still wonder if AVGN will get his hands on this and actually get sedated like he always wanted to.
i hope someone sends him one, like for his virtual boy review he did every game except one that was super rare and a fan sent in the game so he can officially be done with the virtual boy for good
I also wonder if this item is even allowed to be owned by regular consumers that don’t work in hospitals. If that’s not the case, it would be significantly more difficult for someone to do that. But one can dream.
Shhhh…nobody tell the Alabama penal system.
I’m looking forward to tripping balls with Tarin in the Mysterious Forest.
Looks like a death penalty device for kids.
Could be effective, I don’t see any immediate downside
I’ve seen basically this happen, only they just use a regular gas mask and let the kid play on the Switch until they pass out.
EDIT: Forgot what community this was, the tech is from 2009 and I think it was unreleased (only used in clinical trials). It looks like it’s a pair of headphones with the mask attached, which would be good since it might be awkward trying to wear both at once. The gameboy/MP3 is an example of what it can be used with
Here is a video I found with the demo: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-teN8JcqLZQ
My original overreaction can be found below lol
What I don’t really get is why there’s a need to plug the two things together. Couldn’t we already use both things separately? It would also be more upgradeable to… well, any other portable entertainment device.
I can’t see the promo video, but a few other potential issues
- I think children are usually lying down during sedation so they don’t hurt themselves after they are sedated. We’ve all dropped our phones on our faces, so that seems like a concern.
- Once the child is sedated, does the device get unplugged and the main one get attached?
I guess the main benefit is that it looks cool and it’s something to look forward to. A better implementation might be a screen that is attached to the be, positioned above the kid, and then a separate controller (Xbox, PlayStation, whichever) that they can hold on their lap. Then the mask can be colored in a similar scheme, but it hooks up to the usual machine
