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Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and Hypothermic Arrest

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885
48•js2•1h ago

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addaon•51m ago
They’re not dead until they’re warm and dead.
hannasm•51m ago
Wim hof has a similar childhood story (maybe not quite as extreme)...
mchusma•42m ago
Incredible. I wonder if they can make progress on survivability of regular drowning.
bsder•36m ago
Unlikely. The issue is cold and the speed of the cold. Children have a higher surface-to-mass ratio along with less subcutaneous fat which allows them to cool quickly. The article quotes the breakpoint:

  If water temperature is >6 °C (43 °F), survival is unlikely for submersion >30 minutes.
And even still, it isn't like the child came out unscathed.
js2•23m ago
I was rewatching The Abyss for the first time since 1989 and wondered just what is the process for reviving an asystole heart[^1].

[^1]: It was only relatively recently that I learned you can't shock an asystole heart. e.g. https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/questions/5874/can...

ethersteeds•2m ago
CPR and a boatload of epinephrine, it seems.

That passage bears quoting at length, it's where I really teared up:

> At initiation of ECMO, the boy's rhythm was asystole. The boy was rewarmed with an ECMO heat exchanger-patient gradient ≤10 °C. [...] As the patient's temperature approached 22 °C (72 °F), low-frequency and low-amplitude sinusoidal electrical deflections were noted on his electrocardiogram. As the patient continued to rewarm, these phasic electrical deflections slowly increased in frequency and amplitude. At approximately 28 °C (82 °F), sinusoidal deflections organized into more classic cardiac electrical activity reminiscent of sinus bradycardia with a wide complex. Amiodarone, calcium gluconate, magnesium sulfate, bolus epinephrine, and epinephrine and norepinephrine infusions were administered. After further rewarming, sinus bradycardia developed and ultimately progressed to normal sinus rhythm...

usernametaken29•8m ago
I remember that cryogenesis was deemed viable in the 80ies but essentially surface area is your enemy. Anything larger than a cat can’t be resurrected. It’s pretty bizarre really, they froze mice and microwaved them back to life.
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