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US Special Forces funds drug that can put soldiers injured on the battlefield into hibernation
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| 11-26-14
| Mark Prigg
Posted on 11/26/2014 8:33:25 PM PST by TurboZamboni
US Special Forces working with James Cook University in Australia. Drug aims to raise the heart and blood pressure into a 'survival window' low enough to reduce blood loss, but high enough to prevent brain injury. Human trials expected to begin within a year.
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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: braininjury; drug; hibernation; socom; trial
I bet Dems can't wait to sell this to ISIS.
To: TurboZamboni
Human trials expected to begin within a year.Trials on whom? Are they going to be asking for volunteers?
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posted on
11/26/2014 8:43:35 PM PST
by
Mark17
(So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my saviour, this stranger of Galilee)
To: TurboZamboni
It sounds basically like an Obama speech in a bottle.
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posted on
11/26/2014 9:33:02 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Mark17
Isn't that what heavy doses of morphine do? I mean I have had two terrible accidents involving crushed limbs, blood loss, trauma, internal organ damage, and shock. In both cases morphine and Demerol given through an IV push put me into what you would call hibernation all right.The only exception was one time an accident included brain injury and seizures which I was unaware I was having, precluded any meds other than those to reduce brain swelling and seizures (Dilantin). The pain levels were rather uncomfortable in that one.
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posted on
11/26/2014 9:50:32 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: tumblindice
To: blackdog
Those times don’t sound like they were lots of fun, but it’s good that you lived to tell about them.
To: blackdog
Yes, who knows? Maybe they will call it demerphine.
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posted on
11/26/2014 10:06:58 PM PST
by
Mark17
(So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my saviour, this stranger of Galilee)
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posted on
11/26/2014 10:07:30 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: TurboZamboni
Throughout history war has probably driven medical technology more than anything else.
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posted on
11/26/2014 10:16:01 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: TurboZamboni
Say.... how’s about we spray it on the enemy soldiers with a cropduster? They all hibernate, and bada bing* .. we just walk right in!
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posted on
11/26/2014 10:17:45 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: DesertRhino
Remember that gas the Russians pumped into the movie theater where hostages were being held by Chechnya's rebels? The Russians saved most of the hostages but a few died from the gas. It is very hard to control dosage in a somewhat ambient atmosphere. Body weights, age, physical condition vary along with atmospheric conditions. Dispersal is never uniform.
I always thought airlines should look into the same thing too. Flood the cabin with some sort of aerosolized propophyl drug on departure, and then flush with oxygen fifteen minutes before landing. Keep the pilots on a separate air system.
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posted on
11/27/2014 1:04:18 AM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Oooh, space exploration ping? ;’) Thanks TurboZamboni.
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posted on
11/30/2014 3:57:40 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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