Have you been stabbed recently? If so, you should probably go get some medical assistance and possibly also some counseling for Internet addiction, because you really should not be online right now. Also, in the future, doctors might be able to chill your body to keep all that blood from coming out of you so quickly. So look forward to that.
Next month, the first human trials for just such a procedure will take place at the UPMB Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, where ten lucky victims of fatal injuries (obviously luck is relative in this particular instance) will have their blood temporarily replaced with a cold saline solution that would rapidly lower their core body temperature to 10 °C, slow down their biological functions and, hopefully, delay blood loss-related death. Which is sort of ironic when you consider that they have to remove all of the patient’s blood for it to work, but presumably, they’ll put it back where they found it after they’re able to treat all the injuries.
via Geekosystem
May 28, 2014
