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I see this as a two-fer, two for the price of one. The medics get some very valuable training and experience, the rest of the post gets spare ribs and pork roast at chow time. Works for me!

I am doing some work for a company that developed and is marketing suits used in emergency medical situations to cool down a person's core body temp to the range that's considered therapeutic hypothermy, 85 degrees C, give or take. Early testing was done on pigs because they were the best substitutes for humans. Much of the work was done in Europe because of the more permissive regulatory patterns there. They made a couple of interesting and unexpected discoveries during the course of testing. One was that you could deprive the pig of over 90 percent of its blood supply and with hypothermia methods re-infuse the animal and it would suffer virtually no undesirable results. As a rule, lose over 30 percent of your blood and the damage is irreversible, even with prompt replacement of the blood.

Thanks, that’s interesting. Sounds like there are good possibilities.

Do you know if this theory is based on the fact that drowning victims (mostly children) have survived long periods under frigid water and survived?

The medics get some very valuable training and experience, the rest of the post gets spare ribs and pork roast at chow time.

Back in the day, we used goats at Ft Bragg. The animal is anesthetized to the surgical level and it is maintained there until the procedures are complete. Then, the animal is euthanized without ever regaining consciousness. The training using live tissue donors was excellent.

You wouldn't want to eat the meat after the medics infuse all those drugs in them.