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> frozen mamallian bodies are completely dead So fun fact: In mountain rescue they have a saying that you aren't dead until you're warm and dead. People do com
by Swizec 3y ago
> frozen mamallian bodies are completely dead
So fun fact: In mountain rescue they have a saying that you aren't dead until you're warm and dead. People do come back from frozen.
Here's some science about this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24882104/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24882104/
> Hypothermic cardiac arrest has high mortality and few known prognostic factors. We studied retrospectively 34 victims of accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest admitted to The University Hospital of North Norway during 1985-2013 who were resuscitated and rewarmed by extracorporeal circulation. No patient survived prior to 1999, while nine out of 24 (37.5%) survived hypothermic cardiac arrest from 1999 to 2013. The lowest measured core temperature among survivors was 13.7°C; the longest time from cardiac arrest to return of spontaneous circulation was 6 h and 52 min. The only predictor of survival identified was lower blood potassium concentration in the nine survivors compared with the non-survivors. Submersion was not associated with reduced survival. Non-survivors consumed modest hospital resources. Most survivors had a favourable neurological outcome.
Can't find the very cool journalistic story where I learned the phrase a few years ago. I think it was one of those New York Times online features they used to do. Similar to the famous Avalanche story, but about a woman who froze to death and came back ... or maybe it was part of the Avalanche story even. Memory fuzzy