Sort of incredible claims, but a reputable organization and hard data to support it. Think what might be possible if such treatment could be started sooner.
The near-freezing temperature probably helped minimize the brain damage.
The therapy was probably aided by the patient’s youth. Stem cells, etc. A baby’s neurological system is not fully developed for a few years.
Can we do this on Congress?
This is a good example of something called the “diving reflex” that happens when young children fall headfirst into cold H2O. Also it calls into question the tendency to want to take children off life support after a day or two. NO WAY!! Don’t judge them brain-dead right away!! Their young brains have remarkable powers of regeneration.
The organ-donation teams hover around their bedsides pushing the parents to pull the plug “so that others may live”. I’ve seen it happen and it is disgusting. Give the kids a chance. Do no harm!!
Remarkable
Wow! God is good.
There was a facility called the Cunningham Sanitarium that
housed up to 40 patients in a 5 story, 65 foot diameter 900 ton steel sphere. It cost a million dollars to build, equivalent to around 14 million dollars today. It was demolished during WWII and sold for scrap metal. You can read an interesting history here...
https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/378#.WXKLj5qL9hE
Be sure to check out the pictures - very Buck Rogers retro.
Wondering of Charlie Gard could benefit from something like this.
My first posting here was about hyperbaric oxygen treatments for brain damage. I’d been lurking here for some time; and was a close follower of all the Terri Schiavo threads. This article appeared in the local paper shortly after she died. I joined up, just to post it. (No one warned me of the addictive qualities of this site; else I might have stepped away from the keyboard.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1377209/posts
It is a well known fact that the brains of young mammals develop more with greater sensory, especially tactile, stimulation. So in addition to the hyperbaric treatments, they should put him in a sensory stimulus suit.
Skin nerve receptors include cutaneous mechanoreceptors (pressure), nociceptors (pain) and thermoreceptors (temperature), each of which are associated with different nerves.
There should also be a wide range of audio stimulation, especially in the higher registers, such as violin music, as well as visual input, maybe set up as an interactive game.
Even a wide range of odors should be introduced to the chamber, as curiously odor recognition forms some of our most durable memories.
I saw a documentary once about a child in UK, who was born with, or developed fluid on the brain. Imaging showed almost all fluid in his skull, with a sort of shell of brain tissue surrounding it. He was a twin. Despite the small amount of brain tissue, he was developing at a normal rate. Here’s a link to a similar story:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/boy-no-brain-stuns-doctors-9778554
So there’s hope for liberals after all???
Same therapy that was used on Randal McCloy Jr. after he survived the Sago Mine explosion on 1/6/06. Worked great for him too.
http://wvmetronews.com/2015/12/31/sago-mine-disaster-survivor-10-years-later/
Just add this example to the growing number of "cases" being cured by hyperbaric medicine, including autism............
Would not want to ruin a multi billion dollar cancer treatment industry with a cure would we?