Posted on 11/20/2019 12:43:35 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Groundbreaking trial in US rapidly cools trauma victims with catastrophic injury to buy more time for surgery
Doctors have put humans into a state of suspended animation for the first time in a groundbreaking trial that aims to buy more time for surgeons to save seriously injured patients.
The process involves rapidly cooling the brain to less than 10C by replacing the patients blood with ice-cold saline solution. Typically the solution is pumped directly into the aorta, the main artery that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
Known formally as emergency preservation and resuscitation, or EPR, the procedure is being trialled on people who sustain such catastrophic injuries that they are in danger of bleeding to death and who suffer a heart attack shortly before they can be treated. The patients, who are often victims of stabbings or shootings, would normally have less than a 5% chance of survival.
Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore, described the trial at a recent symposium held by the New York Academy of Sciences. He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived. The first time the team performed the process was a little surreal, he told New Scientist magazine.
Rapid cooling of trauma victims is designed to reduce brain activity to a near standstill and to slow the patients physiology enough to give surgeons precious extra minutes, perhaps more than an hour, to operate. Once the patients injuries have been attended to, they are warmed up and resuscitated.
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Like President Not Sure in Idiocracy?
I did get the sense that it was a sort of homage or knock off of Dr. Who. Must have been the cape.
Isn’t that what we call an “Induced coma?”
Someone with some real medical background need to explain the ramifications to us.
At 10C (That is 50F or LESS) a person would have to be close to or experiencing brain death. How much activity is going on at or below 50F?
This sounds for all purposes like what happens when someone gets trapped in an ice lake then they drag them out later and revive them... the exception being that they aren’t freezing the rest of the body so it can be worked on.
How long can you leave a brain with no blood flow at those temps and not be dead? We’ve always been told that if you are unconscious in freezing water for more than 5-10 minutes you are gone.
So how does this prevent that?
Without the great trauma center in Baltimore, the staggering murder rate would be super staggering.
I think I read that it was British script writings answer to Captain America.
Only instead of freezing a drug enhanced soldier at the end of World War Two and reviving him in the sixties, this show froze an Edwardian Gentleman Adventurer in 1902 and revived him in the sixties...where a go go dancer takes it upon herself to keep him out of trouble.
Hardly cheesy at all, that.
Well, Jeff Sessions was a successful test.
Sure, the *tell* you that you’ll be placed in suspended animation. Then you end up on one of those conveyer belts leading into the Soylent Corporation’s processing facility.
“So this new therapy doesnt seem too out of the ordinary except for the use of saline.”
I am certain I read about Russia using this method on heart surgery many years ago. I think you are correct, this is a variation with saline.
Weren’t Khan and his people on Star Trek, in suspended animation?
What happens when they put Ginsburg into suspended animation and then declare her justice for eternity.
At least to get past the impeachment inquiry and Dem debates.....
Nah, you wake up sex-changed, lobotomized, tattooed and a registered Democrat.
Idiocracy yeap!
I bet coming out of this would be the ULTIMATE BRAIN FREEZE.
Where is RBG?
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