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To: Venturer
I have taken a few courses in first aid, and they always teach the brain starts dying after 4 minutes.

Sometimes in very cold places or under cold water as long as 30 minutes , but bringing back the brain dead doesn’t sound too bright to me.

From the article: "We may have injectable drugs that slow the process of cell death in the brain and other organs."

22 posted on 08/02/2013 4:36:17 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

The story doesn’t make sense. If they had such drugs they would have to inject them in the first 4 minutes. If they inject the drugs in the firt 4 minutes why woiuld they wait 24 hrs to save the body.

I guess you could say they were repairing it with operations for 24 hrs. This could work for young accident victims , but for us old codgers why bother.?


27 posted on 08/02/2013 4:45:24 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

If the heart isn’t beating these “cell death preventing” drugs can’t get to the cells. So even if this becomes possible the person would have to be in a hospital or have cpr started quickly.


28 posted on 08/02/2013 5:28:19 AM PDT by millerph
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