- Knife wound, gunshot patients when brought to the hospital will be treated by draining the blood completely and replacing it with freezing salt water
- The patients will be clinically dead and the doctors will get time to give appropriate treatment for the betterment of the patients
- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have started the medical trails and scientists are doing this as one of its kind but the patients will not be able to give consent for the same
- Submerged under 38,000 feet below people can survive with less or without oxygen they can survive
- Way back in 1960’s new born kids were in snow banks before heart surgery by Siberian surgeon to improve chances of survival
- Once the hypothermia is induced in dying patients doctors can prepare themselves for a better treatment, so far hypothermia has never been tried upon patients who were injured
- Once the procedure is done the team will use a heart-lung bypass machine with a heat exchanger to return blood to the patient and if this works the patient ‘s heart beat when temperature reaches 85 to 90 degrees
- Read at: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31806&articlexml=In-a-first-docs-to-kill-patients-to-11062014019014
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