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Absurdly Interesting Article on the Potential for Medical ResurrectionVia Hot Air, a fascinating glimpse into an area of medicine I didn't even know was an area of medicine. It is freaky to think of death, or life, for that matter, as anything other than a binary proposition. You are either dead or you are alive. There is no "mostly dead." That's why that worked as a joke in The Princess Bride. But in reality there actually are stages of death; the average person isn't aware of them. But doctors specializing in "resuscitation medicine" are. I've heard of "clinically dead" and "medically dead" but never really read about why one was "mostly dead" and the other was all the way dead. I was surprised to learn resuscitation is now a medical specialty, and it's very strange to hear someone discussing what is, essentially "light to moderate death," and talking about curing this light-to-moderate death. Speaking of the need to cool the body down to around 32 degrees C, which protects the brain (a cold brain requires less oxygen, even in death) and prevents cell breakdown, this Doctor Parnia says: We use pads that get attached to the thighs and the upper body. In a matter of hours, the cooling machine brings the body temperature down to the desired level. But you could also do this at home, if you found someone there in cardiac arrest. Call an ambulance, administer CPR and place a bag of frozen peas or other frozen vegetables on the patient. It helps to protect the brain. When he says "if his condition doesn't improve" he means the condition of death. Freaky right? Rightly used, reanimation could play a major role in the therapy for many life threatening conditions and thousands more will be saved. Full brain death -- after the brain cells have begun to degenerate -- cannot be reversed. But his very strange point is that most forms of death are treatable. Heart attacks, wounds: These things can be repaired while the patient is "dead" and then the heart may be re-started. As is convenient for the doctor, as odd as that sounds. He noted the actual point of irreversible death is not well known. But it is known that there is something of a "gray area," as he calls it -- bodily processes stopped, but cells not yet degenerating, brain not deprived of oxygen long enough to be permanently damaged. A corpse that would often get shipped to the mortuary... and yet it could still be "reanimated," as he says. Anyway, give it a read. | Recent Comments
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