cedar_springs
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during that operation, the patient will be effectively dead
it takes about four hours for cellular death
Frozen skiers have been re animated
Freeze a life to save a life. Medical researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are planning to temporarily replace the blood of trauma patients with an icy saline solution. The hope will be that by rapidly cooling the human body, surgeons will have time to repair the damage that is killing it. Led by Dr. Hasan Alam of Harvard Medical School, the emergency preservation resuscitation project will cool patients as low as 50°F (10°C), well below normal levels (98.6°F, 37°C) and below the temperatures that would normally induce death (71.6°F, 22°C). At low temperatures, major organs, perhaps especially the brain, may be preserved from injury as metabolic functions cease. Whereas serious trauma patients may normally have just a few minutes to have a gunshot wound or other major injury repaired, Alam hopes that cooled patients will have 60 to 190 minutes of extended time in the OR. While trials at MGH are likely to involve just a few patients in the next year or two, Alam is already discussing the possibilities of how his practice might save lives.
oh course we all know whom will be saved; gang bangers running up billion sin health care costs
it takes about four hours for cellular death
Frozen skiers have been re animated
Freeze a life to save a life. Medical researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston are planning to temporarily replace the blood of trauma patients with an icy saline solution. The hope will be that by rapidly cooling the human body, surgeons will have time to repair the damage that is killing it. Led by Dr. Hasan Alam of Harvard Medical School, the emergency preservation resuscitation project will cool patients as low as 50°F (10°C), well below normal levels (98.6°F, 37°C) and below the temperatures that would normally induce death (71.6°F, 22°C). At low temperatures, major organs, perhaps especially the brain, may be preserved from injury as metabolic functions cease. Whereas serious trauma patients may normally have just a few minutes to have a gunshot wound or other major injury repaired, Alam hopes that cooled patients will have 60 to 190 minutes of extended time in the OR. While trials at MGH are likely to involve just a few patients in the next year or two, Alam is already discussing the possibilities of how his practice might save lives.
oh course we all know whom will be saved; gang bangers running up billion sin health care costs
