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> In fact, many hypothermia victims die each year in the process of being rescued. In “rewarming shock,” the constricted capillaries reopen almost all at once,
by woliveirajr 10y ago
> In fact, many hypothermia victims die each year in the process of being rescued. In “rewarming shock,” the constricted capillaries reopen almost all at once, causing a sudden drop in blood pressure.
Interesting, it's like your body is made of independent organs and systems that don't orchestrate very well. Each part trying to survive on its own make the worst for the whole. Come to think about it, seems that some health problems are caused because some part of your body don't send or receive the proper signals, hormones and so on.
- chillydawg 10y agoDistributed systems are hard, especially with poorly documented inter-system protocols for coordination!
- dahauns 10y agoWhat documentation? The only info they've got is transferred in the transport payload.
- Jtsummers 10y agoJust read the code.
- logfromblammo 10y agoOk, yeah, but we still don't completely understand all the features of the equally undocumented compiler, standard library, and OS kernel.
- dahauns 10y agoTell that to my spleen.
- overlordalex 10y agoWhen I originally heard of this it was explained as restricting capillaries costs energy, and when the energy runs out the capillaries cant help but relax - meaning they simply get tired and give up.