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| # 27998 | Zolpidem 'reverses' vegetative state [Doug Skrecky] |
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Subject: Zolpidem 'reverses' vegetative state
[Hard to beleive.]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5008744.stm
Pill 'reverses' vegetative state
The drug works on nerve cells in the brain
A sleeping pill can temporarily revive people in a permanent vegetative
state to the point where they can have . . . Rehabilitation Centre
A person in a vegetative state will appear to be awake and may . . . of taking the drug and wore
off after four hours, when the patients restored to their permanent
(Sat, 27 May 2006, 4 KB) |
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| # 23394 | Cooling helmets may prevent stroke damage [Basie] |
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Washington, February 6
Helmets that cool the brain may slow down the spreading damage caused by a
stroke, buying precious hours for patients, researchers reported on
Thursday.
Such . . . victims
while getting them to hospitals for brain-saving treatment, the researchers
said.
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with most
caused by blood clots cutting off blood flow to the brain. The longer the
clot lasts, the worse . . . minimize damage but must be given within hours,
usually three hours, of the stroke.
Cooling patients has been . . . problem has been how to cool the brain without affecting the rest of the
body.
. . . cooling helmet on patients three to 12 hours after their
strokes and left it on for (Fri, 6 Feb 2004, 3 KB) |
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| # 17201 | Cryonet for July 23-4 [Louis Epstein] |
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novel" to something/someone omniscient?
#17059: liquified brains and the insect factor [veronica sullivan]
>I . . . well the invasion of the
>insects shortly after death, which is a salient, contributing feature of
>the rapid decomposition of the corpse.
>Generally within two + hours of death, flies are attracted to the . . . feasting on all the organs including the brain as well as all
>the soft tissue.
. . . from it...
His cancer is in the brain,no?
Donaldson would seem him as beyond
. . . 07 AM ET
>> Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies
>> By Sarah Tippit
>> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - . . . evidence that suggests that consciousness
>> may continue after the brain has stopped functioning and a patient is
>> . . . The
>NDE I experienced was formulated well after the event. My immediate
>thoughts after being informed I had been coded were . . . back." As one such person
>somewhat humorously stated it, "my brains aren't worth freezing." (Sat, 4 Aug 2001, 16 KB) |
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| # 5857 | The Technical Feasibility of Cryonics [Ralph C. Merkle] |
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and, at the highest doses, immediate death. After 15 Gy [1,500 rads],
changes begin . . . thought that irreversible cellular damage unavoidably
occurs after only a few minutes of complete cerebral . . . recovery are optimal, short-term restoration of brain functions
may be achieved after periods of ischemia lasting as long as . . . and experimental studies suggest that the normothermic brain is
not able to withstand complete ischemia . . . recovery of a substantial
part of the brain after complete cerebrocirculatory arrest of one hour [omitted
references]."[97]. "It turned out in . . . recovery of energy metabolism and neuronal
excitability after complete cerebro-circulatory arrest of as long as 1 hour at
normal body temperature [omitted reference]"[95].
. . . pages 49- 66; from
"Protection of the Brain from Ischemia" edited by Philip R. Weinstein . . . 94. "Hemodynamics of Postischemic Reperfusion of the Brain," by K.-A.
Hossmann, M.D., Ph. . . . Both principles deny legitimacy to paternalism by
stating unequivocally that, in the last analysis, the (Sat, 24 Feb 1996, 7 KB) |
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| # 4655 | Re: CryoNet #4646 - #4651 [Thomas Donaldson] |
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it is PRESENTLY not legal in any state to freeze someone before they have been
. . . will declare
someone "dead" not because their brain is dead but because reviving them
will only lead to a few minutes more of "life", after which they will go down
once again. . . . cases we can say unequivocally that their
brain is still "alive" when they are declared . . . aliveness" or "death" of that patient's brain
will continue during suspension.
However in (unfortunately) . . . No one
was at fault: remember that after several days of sleeplessness,that can
happen to anyone).
In such cases, some might claim that the brain of the patient was "dead". At
this . . . in such cases: work on reviving people after the "5 minute limit"
has continued for . . . kind of injury, people
can be revived after as long as 10 minutes. Experiments strongly . . . KA Hossman managed to
revive a cat brain after an HOUR of bloodlessness (with no circulation). Lots
of (Thu, 20 Jul 1995, 7 KB) |
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| # 23193 | new research 3hrs hypoxic - no problem [brent thomas] |
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from the article
New Understanding Of Why Brain Cells Die After Stroke Will Lead To Development Of New . . . have found a major mechanism that causes brain cells to die from stroke. They discovered that when brain cells are deprived of oxygen and vital nutrients, as happens to parts of the brain affected by a stroke, a special channel on the surface of those brain cells is activated, triggering a lethal chain . . . cells to survive for more than three hours without oxygen and vital nutrients.
With this . . . inject into stroke patients up to several hours after a stroke. These medications will prevent the consequences of activating TRPM7, extend the life of brain cells after a stroke, and help improve the outcome . . . National Institutes of Health of the United States of America.
Toronto Western Hospital has been (Tue, 30 Dec 2003, 7 KB) |
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| # 19767 | FW: E-SKEPTIC: REDUX [mike99] |
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where he now
"resides" in a frozen state as a "patient" awaiting "reanimation" in the
. . . of defrosting frozen strawberries: "this is your brain on cryonics."
Naturally the cryonics folks were . . . can reach your side and get your brain cool.
P2: Probability that your memories will . . . But some aren't).
Do memories survive hours of clinical death? We don't know, but you can
culture living cells from human brains after 8 hours of death in the morgue,
(Sun, 11 Aug 2002, 13 KB) |
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| # 19763 | Fwd: [Fwd: E-SKEPTIC: REDUX] [Jeff Davis] |
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where he now
"resides" in a frozen state as a "patient" awaiting "reanimation" in the
. . . of defrosting frozen strawberries: "this is your brain on cryonics."
Naturally the cryonics folks were . . . can reach your side and get your brain cool.
P2: Probability that your memories will . . . But some aren't).
Do memories survive hours of clinical death? We don't know, but you can
culture living cells from human brains after 8 hours of death in the
morgue,
(Sun, 11 Aug 2002, 15 KB) |
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| # 5829 | Re: Death (was Donaldson MR and Miss Hindley) [Brian Wowk] |
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repost.
>> We are apparently to believe that after three minutes of
>> (warm?) ischemia, the brain undergoes a magical transition called
>> "death" which . . . is instantaneous, merely
>that it is irreversible.
...after three minutes. And this is nonsense. Obviously at SOME
time after onset of cardiac arrest, brain injury will become irreversible
by ANY conceivable technology. But three minutes certainly isn't it.
Three HOURS (or more) is probably closer to the . . . in what sense its
>failure is "mere"?
After about three minutes of cerebral ischemia, ATP . . . the
capillaries, ultimately preventing the resumption of brain blood flow
after the heart is restarted. This (in very . . . that cats could be revived
after ONE HOUR of global cerebral ischemia if blood was . . . stabbing victim
was successfully resuscitated after ONE HOUR of cardiac arrest with the
aid of . . . becomes problematic after three minutes
for reasons stated above, there is NOT A SINGLE CELL (23 Feb 96 23:22:36, 6 KB) |
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| # 12595 | Sorry, no "major breakthrough" today [Mike Darwin] |
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entitled "Instructions for the Induction of Solid State Hypothermia in
Humans" was written by Fred . . . lab work with BOTH kidney (Fahy) and
brain (me) established that what worked for taneia coli muscle did NOT wok
for these two organs/tissues. Brains in particular were creamed (literally)
by membrane . . . I
think) having done this experiment with brain slices maybe upwards of 100
times: 20% DMSO at 0 C cool to -7 after equilibration (~1hr), substitute
30% DMSO at -7 . . . increase rapidly over time in the liquid
state at -79 C due to re-arrangement . . . at a rate of 4 C per hour, then that patient would be exposed to
(Tue, 19 Oct 1999, 11 KB) |
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