We thought we’d pulled a dead person out of the water

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/we-thought-wed-pulled-a-dead-person-out-of-the-water-woman-recovers-after-puget-sound-rescue

by sytelus • 8 years ago

18 5 8 years ago

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jackweirdy• 8 years ago

“There was massive overpressurization of a cockpit on the flight deck that essentially caused my lungs to explode and collapse,” he said in a recent telephone interview.

Kind of terrifying that that can happen, but equally incredible that the body can recover so well.

FreeFull• 8 years ago

There is a saying that goes "You're not dead until you're warm and dead.". There are many documented cases where hypothermia actually saved the lives of drowning people, by strongly reducing the metabolism until rescue.

stzup7• 8 years ago

How does that woman not suffer irreversible neurological damages after 4 hours without oxygen?

IntronExon• 8 years ago

Hypothermia. You use far less oxygen if your metabolism has essentially ground to a halt.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530563/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837800

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322114/

skywhopper• 8 years ago

Part (or much? it's not clear) of that time, rescuers were performing CPR on her, working her heart and lungs for her, so she didn't go that entire span entirely without oxygen.

We thought we’d pulled a dead person out of the water

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