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Doctors Claim Suspended Animation Success

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the define-normal-care dept.

Philoneist.com writes to tell us the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that US doctors have developed a process to induce hypothermia in trauma patients, shutting down their bodily functions for up to three hours. The process has been proven about 90% effective in trials with pigs and now the doctors would like the go ahead to test it on humans who would "probably die" under normal care.

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  1. Wouldn't that... by Luke+PiWalker · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...cause undue stress on the body? Hypothermia shuts down the body's processes yes, but I would think trauma victims need all the energy they can get to survive. Inducing hypothermia should only hurt the process. Maybe if someone was clearly going to die you could induce hypothermia in an ambulance to give them time to get to the hospital but I can't see this being useful to inpatients and the like.

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