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From: Aristotle Jones <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Suspended Animation
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:51:33 -0700
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Hi,

	I found the "Suspended Animation for delayed resuscitation" article in
a local hospital library.

	It was a product of the International Resuscitation Research Conference
of May 1994 at the University of Pittsburg and was supported by a grant
from the US Army, Laerdal and Baxter. 

The participants included heart surgeons, combat casualty
epidemiologists, researchers in cryodogs, electric anesthesia theorists,
investigators of hibernating animals, hypoxia-tolerant humans, and
transplant specialists. 

Basically, both army and civilian doctors found that wounded patients
from hostile environments fell into two categories, those who died
within the first five minutes or those who had minor injuries, and could
be given first aid. The distribution was bimodal, not a bell curve. This
would apply to airline crashes and bombing victims as well as combat
casualties. 

     With severe, multiple injuries, the Golden hour isn't enough
anymore. Army Trauma surgeons found that there was not enough time to
repair interdependent systems even after the patient arrived in the
operating room.  They needed some way to preserve vital systems after
the heart stopped, till resuscitation was viable. 

They found that they needed to preserve the tissues of a pulseless
patient for about three hours to be able to repair severe injuries.
Presently, suspended animation of one hour is possible without new basic
knowledge.

While some of their ideas had yet to be proven, if research into short
term rapid whole body cooling [~10C] is successful, we can imagine
triage teams adding a new category to their protocol…freezing those who
before were beyond hope.  This could spawn applications in longer term
preservation or human hibernation.

<*>aj

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