Death.

[Oyama]

I seem to be finding a lot of interesting things around the internet lately.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/si ... /?GT1=9951

I'd love to hear what the formerly dead people had to say, if they got it to work.

[Contrary]

Wow, that's really interesting.. I wonder how that'll effect the treatment of GSWs and other related causes of death? If all the patients need is a way to keep the brain alive while carefully reintroducing oxygen to the body, alot more soldiers might be saved.

[Obsidian]

Damn man, that's a pretty startling field of research. I've read a fair bit on hypothermic resuscitation and stuff.

There's doctors/surgeons out there who lower the body-temperature drastically so they can spend longer working on repairing the damage to the body (injury, trauma, whatever) then gradually raise the temperature.

They haven't done much work with people who died at regular temperatures, or like, 15/20 minutes before they were found, etc.

I really liked the findings relating cell death upon reperfusion to mitochondrial self-terminating. It makes a fair bit of sense, really. Why else would the cells die from lack of, or abundance of oxygen? Only the miochondria can kill them.

I especially loved this part. It sounds so good =P

"The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive."

[StormSeeker]

Oh wow...this is creepy, (well it's creepy to see it in print I guess as it bears a lot of similarity to things I have figured out on my own regarding healing, and the physical death and dying process(es).)

The hypothermia thing makes perfect sense to me, given my own experiences. I thought that was actually something that's been used as awhile for the same results.

Very cool. *agrees with Adam on the point about the soldiers*