Hypothermia Posted by on 20-Jan-2006 - Day(s) left: 7795
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By 2030 most surgeries will be done using Induced Hypothermia. Inducing hypothermia shuts down the body''s functions for hours, keeping humans in a state of suspended animation while surgeons repair their wounds.
It will be used on Car crash and gunshot victims, as well as in the battlefield to treat wounded soldiers.
Physicians would allow a patient to bleed to death within minutes while recapturing the patient''s blood and replacing it with a cold saline solution, putting the body into a state of suspended animation.
Normal body temperature is 37ºC. Hypothermic body temperature is 10ºC. Brain death occurs in 4-5 minutes while in hypothermia can survive for 90-120 minutes. Usualy, at critically low oxygen levels the cellular respiratory chain produces excessive amounts of toxic freeoxygen radicals, killing it''s own cells. Using Induced Hypothermia, the saline solution flushes oxygencarrying blood from body tissue, shutting down the cellular respiratory chain.
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