Death Often Isn’t
By Daniel Miessler on May 3rd, 2007: Tagged as Medicine
So it turns out that 99.9% of hospitals are doing the exact wrong thing for patients that have been down from heart attacks for more than 10 or 15 minutes. If you do the right thing there’s a very good chance they can bring you back, but nobody’s doing it.
The short version is that you die when you get oxygen forced into you too quickly after being without it — which is precisely what E.R.s are trained to do. Researchers are finding that if you cool the body and slow the rate at which oxygen re-enters the system, you can basically bring people back to life.
Insane.
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