Kevin Everett When Cold Is Hot Stuff

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Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

I hope he can walk again.

What irked me during MNF ESPN repeatedly showed the play where he was injured. Really classless on their part.

I agree Pillow it's a little like the feeking you get when a showing of the Towers going down during 9/11.....sickening!

The sports media hasn't figured out why this is so significant yet. The key to this is that this approach is actually able to minimize, if not stop, neurologic ischemia (low blood flow) which leads to irreversible stroke and permanent paralysis due to cessation of blood flow.

Without controlled hypothermia the swelling that would take place in Everett's cord at midneck (C3-C4 = above control of independent breathing by phrenic nerve) this would have left him a quadraplegic and ventilator dependent because he would be unable to lower his diaphram to breathe.

We do hypothermic therapy routinely now in sudden death if I can jump start your heart fast enough. (< 4 hours from heart stopping) The same goal of minimizing brain swelling and lethal ischemic injury is treated by running in 2 liters of glorified salt water at just above freezing temp.

http://www.webmd.com/brain/news/2007...src=RSS_PUBLIC

This is a link from Web MD that gives you the particulars. These guys are huge national heroes.