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British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by hprotagonist »

zozbot234 wrote: post #26
orobinson wrote: post #24

It’s amazing how this phenomenon has been adapted into medical technology. When my son was born he wasn’t breathing properly and his blood oxygen levels dropped to critical levels. He was rushed to hospital and the first thing they did was cool him to 34c to reduce the risk of brain damage. He made a full recovery. I dread to think what would have happened without the cooling.

Why not cool the patient before rushing them to hospital, if the technique is so widely applicable? It could easily be made a standard feature of emergency medical services.

>easily

seems like a bold claim to me.

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by nickthemagicman »

hprotagonist wrote: post #31
zozbot234 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not cool the patient before rushing them to hospital, if the technique is so widely applicable? It could easily be made a standard feature of emergency medical services.

>easily seems like a bold claim to me.

What would be even easier is putting the whole hospital inside the ambulance then you don't have to actually take the patient anywhere.

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by johnnycab »

afthonos wrote: post #2

I read somewhere "you are not dead until you're warm and dead". Data point in favor.

Your comment reminded me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm

The electrocardiogram connected to her showed no signs of life,[2] but Gilbert knew patients should be "warmed up before you declare them dead".[25]

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by TomMarius »

jfoster wrote: post #29
TomMarius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the training of the emergency crew is not sufficient?

Why not improve the training?

Sure, I don't know, I was asking a question. Maybe the full medicine degree would be required for that? I have no idea, that's why I asked.

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by yardie »

zozbot234 wrote: post #26
orobinson wrote: post #24

It’s amazing how this phenomenon has been adapted into medical technology. When my son was born he wasn’t breathing properly and his blood oxygen levels dropped to critical levels. He was rushed to hospital and the first thing they did was cool him to 34c to reduce the risk of brain damage. He made a full recovery. I dread to think what would have happened without the cooling.

Why not cool the patient before rushing them to hospital, if the technique is so widely applicable? It could easily be made a standard feature of emergency medical services.

> easily

Because creating a cooling system to use on a body with a central nervous system fighting to keep it warm is just like central HVAC.

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by cdolan »

nickthemagicman wrote: post #32
hprotagonist wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>easily seems like a bold claim to me.

What would be even easier is putting the whole hospital inside the ambulance then you don't have to actually take the patient anywhere.

I appreciate the sarcasm haha

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by drbytes »

Reminds me about a quote I heard, don't remember where, about Napoleons main medic.

Apparently he noticed that equally injured soldiers would die at different times based upon how close they were to the camp fire with those closest expiring way before those laid out the farthest from the fire.

Could be a bs story, I never actually looked into it.

Re: British woman revived after six-hour cardiac arrest

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Post by navaati »

OscarCunningham wrote: post #28
Tepix wrote: post #8

So, I still don't know if you are irreversibly dead if your brain stops all activity. I.e. is the state of your brain preserved just by the connections of the neurons? Or is the "RAM" also critical?

Lightning strikes don't wipe people's personalities. Also during epileptic seizures people's neurons fire in abnormal ways, but then return to normal afterwards. So I'd say that the RAM isn't critical; humans can boot from disk.

> humans can boot from disk

Now I want to read a sci-fi book with this sentence in it.

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