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I guess my most impactful project was a microprocessor-based weather station for siting wind energy systems and fruit frost prediction in the early 1980s. Turne
by gardenfelder 4y ago
I guess my most impactful project was a microprocessor-based weather station for siting wind energy systems and fruit frost prediction in the early 1980s. Turned out that one of my stations, being used by a frost predictor, was across the street from a rural drainage ditch in which a young child was discovered face down in the water. The frost predictor faxed temperature profiles for the previous several hours to the hospital, where doctors determined the child could be revived. She was.
- dan_wood 4y agoThat’s amazing.
- gardenfelder 4y agoInteresting that one my the developers on my projects was Dan Wood.
- thewebcount 4y agoWow! That's a pretty amazing story. Thank you for sharing.
- gardenfelder 4y agoThank you! Took me by surprise when my client phoned and said my weather station was on the evening news.
- pmarreck 4y agowait... they won't try to revive a child unless they can first prove that said child can be revived? Why not just... try to do it regardless and hope for the best? Also, as a new parent, my immediate thought is of course "WHO wasn't watching the kid??"
- 13of40 4y agoJust a guess, but it might have something to do with whether the brain is able to be saved vs. just the body.
- pmarreck 4y agoyes but why wouldn't you try regardless of knowing? In the time you spend gathering temp data, you could already be reviving
- Aeolun 4y agoI imagine they were doing that regardless, but were very happy to learn that there was an actual chance of success.
- gardenfelder 4y agoThat, in fact, is how I figured it went. I did not get to see the video, so everything remains speculation.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoBecause chances are extremely slim: > Various degrees of hypothermia may be deliberately induced in medicine for purposes of treatment of brain injury, or lowering metabolism so that total brain ischemia can be tolerated for a short time. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is a medical technique in which the brain is cooled as low as 10 °C, which allows the heart to be stopped and blood pressure to be lowered to zero, for the treatment of aneurysms and other circulatory problems that do not tolerate arterial pressure or blood flow. The time limit for this technique, as also for accidental arrest in ice water (which internal temperatures may drop to as low as 15 °C), is about one hour.[84] Also you can't just warm the body back to 38 degrees, it should be carefully brought up AFAIK.