According to this article, surgeons at Massachusetts General are preparing to employ a similar concept to trauma victims. By pumping cold saline through a patient's blood vessels, the team can lower body temperature to 10˚C, or a frigid 50˚F.
Claims the leader of the project, "By cooling rapidly in this fashion we can convert almost certain death into a 90 percent survival rate."
Pretty cool.
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The Telegraph references a BBC Horizon programme. I've watched it and, unless my memory has failed, they don't replace blood by cold saline. Instead they use a heart bypass machine and cool the blood running through that as well as using bags of ice water in the abdomen.
Still freaky though.
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