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“If he had been brought half an hour earlier … We couldn’t to do, “the doctor’s words fall like a hammer driving nails into coffin lid. When life leaves the body with drops, often it’s not even hours – minutes become fatal. American medical scientists from Arizona University gives us hope that in the near future death will not be so inevitable. Cause of death of a seriously wounded a person’s first and foremost is blood loss. After 5 minutes after a cardiac arrest, the brain dies – it does not receive the oxygen he needs, delivered with a blood stream. Then other organs die. The same result – death, is inevitable with heavy bleeding. Though the heart beats, it works idle: there is no blood circulation in the body, the brain dies in the result of oxygen starvation. However, if you lower body temperature at 10 degrees, the victim is immersed in a state of deep numbness in which palpitations and breathing almost stop. Life processes in the body so slow that the metabolism in the cells practically does not occurs, the need for oxygen supply is practically disappears. There is enough energy for the cells to sustain life, produced during oxygen-free reactions. Proposed American scientists, the technique involves a replacement in the body blood to a special saline solution, which will cool body from the inside out. Thus, doctors will receive from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours the time needed to repair fatal damage and restore the integrity of damaged vessels. After operation the reverse process of replacing the solution with blood and a person starts “comes to life”. This is not to say that this is a completely new idea. Lowering body temperature was already applied during operations, but now this method will be used as one of the ways of salvation human life in an extreme situation. Doctors at the University of Arizona have been working in this direction since 2000. They carried hundreds operations in which fatally injured animals were immersed in a state of suspended animation, operated on, and then brought back to life. Survival rate increased to 90%, while in in the control group, mortality was 100%. Can say that Doctors have proven the safety of the method and its effectiveness. It gave Establishment of the American Product Quality Control Commission and Drug Administration (US FDA) to authorize the application of the methodology to people.
So very soon we will find out the name of the first person saved from using immersion in suspended animation.
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