Some Obscurish facts
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Survival rates for cases of cardiac arrest (where the heart stops beating suddenly) can be dramatically improved by chilling the patient's core body temperature to 33 C (91.5 F) for several hours, beginning soon after the event, according to research carried out in 2002 and 2003 at the department of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Even more surprising, brain damage normally associated with cardiac arrest is severely limited and often even reversed by this unorthodox treatment.
Survival rates for cases of cardiac arrest (where the heart stops beating suddenly) can be dramatically improved by chilling the patient's core body temperature to 33 C (91.5 F) for several hours, beginning soon after the event, according to research carried out in 2002 and 2003 at the department of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Even more surprising, brain damage normally associated with cardiac arrest is severely limited and often even reversed by this unorthodox treatment.