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TIL about the “Bogota Bag”, a known medical procedure where a plastic bag, typically an IV bag, is cut open and placed over the stomach to provide a hermetic seal over exposed organs that are so swollen the stomach must be cut open and exposed to relieve fatal pressure.

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