Yeah, but more knowledge is always a good thing. This just goes to show you how little we actually do know in the scheme of things. It's kinda mind boggling that we hadn't studied our dying cells until just recently, no?Originally posted by: DeathBUA
My only worry about this article...and considering that I work in a Level 1 Trauma Center...arguably one of the better ones in the country...is that people will hear about this and get false hope thing going. It looks good so far and at least for sudden cardiac arrest, but how it's gonna work out for someone having a stroke who has sudden cardiac arrest. Or gunshot wounds, stab wounds etc. Does this sort of treatment help with that as well? Because the unfortunate thing is that sudden cardiac arrest is usually CAUSED by something else...I guess I'll have to read this study in depth
But yes, it should. The whole idea is that your cells do not die after 5 minutes with no oxygen. It doesn't matter what the cause is. With current technology, there wouldn't be much we could do to save someone who has all 10 pints of blood pooled next to him on the concrete. But nearly every one of his 10 trillion cells are actually still alive, and in theory, we may be able to do something about it eventually.
Now if someone was run over by a freight train, or decapitated, they're pretty much fscked.