X-Message-Number: 29660
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: 2Arcturus <>
Subject: newsweek on low temps to save heart attack vics

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I didn't realize this was a front page article till I saw it in a waiting 
room....
   
  Front page of Newsweek is pretty good publicity!
  
>The emerging view is that oxygen deprivation is merely
the start of a cascade of reactions within and outside
the cells that can play out over the succeeding hours,
or even days. Dying turns out to be almost as
complicated a process as living
   

  Now that the general public knows that, hopefully the medical establishment 
  will have to deal with that fact.
   
  >But one thing does seem to work, something so
obvious and low-tech that doctors have a hard time
accepting it. It's hypothermia, the intentional
lowering of body temperature
   

  I can't help but wonder if the reason doctors have had such a hard time 
  accepting it, is because of the low opinion of cryonics and the connection in 
  their minds between hypothermia and cryonics.
   

  It is an absolute disgrace that the benefits of hypothermia have been known 
  for so long and yet hospitals are still not using it to save lives. (as per 
  below)
   
  >Despite favorable
studies and the endorsement of the American Heart
Association, "we were concerned that [hypothermia]
still wasn't catching on," says the conference
organizer, Dr. Daniel Herr of Washington Hospital
Center in Washington, D.C. 
   
  >The two leading
manufacturers of cooling equipment Medivance, Inc.,
and Gaymar Industries say only about 225 hospitals,
out of more than 5,700 in the United States, have
installed machines for inducing hypothermia. Herr says
the treatment requires a "paradigm shift" by doctors.
"People have a hard time believing that something as
simple as cooling can make such a big difference."
   
  >Oh, and BTW, Kevin, what's the deal with the 20K
limit? THat is surely not THAT big in this day of
cheap terabyte drives? 

I have to agree, 20K is miniscule by today's standards. 
   
  Greg

       
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