X-Message-Number: 27319 From: "Nick Pavlica" <> Subject: Slurry Technology: Medical (and Cryonic), Uses Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:00:51 -0500 Slurry Technology: Medical (and Cryonic), Uses Think ice slurry and you might envision a soda fountain drink, but a new technology is being tested that'll use slurries to help save lives. I'm Jim Metzner, and this is the Pulse of the Planet. Engineers at Argonne National Laboratory believe that ice particles, chemically modified to be made smoother and smaller, could give doctors more time to save a patient undergoing cardiac arrest. Ken Kasza, a mechanical engineer at Argonne says that the slurry mixture has a greater capacity to cool than plain chilled water, and that it could be used to to keep a patient's heart and brain alive. "We are trying to reduce the rate of cell death upon cardiac arrest or stroke. When, there's a cessation of blood flow, cells in the brain start to die within four minutes. http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Nov05/3569.html Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27319