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From: Paul Mcmullan, MD

Category: Heart Disease

Added: Aug 24, 2008

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Dr Paul McMullan, of the Ochsner Clinic, discusses the use of hypothermia, or cooling patients that have cardiac arrest and some that have heart attacks.

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alanstD56 (Sep 17, 2008)

Hey, I do not think you are a dumb Southerner at all. I think that hypothermia sounds like a great idea for cooling patients that have cardiac arrest and heart attactks. Maybe, we could sleep in a cool pack.........

Redneck4l (Sep 11, 2008)

I may be a dumb southerner, but this really makes sense to me. We know that most things are preserved better in the cold, so why not cool people when they have a heart attack to help preserve the heart muscle.

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