Amy Moore, 38, from North Carolina, USA, was chilled for 2 days before undergoing a heart surgery.
Strange survivors in the world
Before that, Amy suddenly had a heart attack and stopped blood vessels for 20 minutes. The doctors decided to save her life by chilling cold ice and injecting refrigerant to lower her body temperature to 34 degrees C.
At this temperature, Amy's brain stops working so it will be protected while the heart has stopped beating. Low temperatures also help doctors have time for surgery to help her heart work again.
The doctors were 'chilled ' Amy two days before surgery. After successful surgery, Amy lost part of her memory, but her brain was not damaged.
Amy Moore and her husband and son.(photo: Dailymail)
'My wife has been clinically dead for a long time, but now she has returned to us, so wonderful!' - Amy's husband Jacob said.
Lilly Cracknell (UK) girl was rescued by doctors despite having stopped breathing for 30 minutes after being chilled for three days after birth. This hypothermia treatment helps prevent an infant's brain from swollen. Lilly's body temperature has dropped from 37 to 35.5oC.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm - a Swedish medical student fell down when skiing and was about 0.2m thick of snow and ice covered near a mountain stream, with only skis and ankle parts sticking out up. Bagenholm found an air hole under the snow and tried to resist waiting for the help. Then the female student heart stopped beating but she still lived. The rescue team took 40 minutes to remove snow and save Bagenholm and take her to the hospital by helicopter. Nearly 4 hours after the accident, her heart just returned.
In the winter of 2001, a Canadian woman, who had fallen victim to a cold and fainted in the cold of snow with an outdoor temperature down to pitch, fell into a deadly clinical state while under cover. of cold snow. Body temperature was then maintained at 16oC and in a harsh condition seemed impossible to survive. A surprise happened, a few days after they found the body of the victim, the activities of emergency and heating the body helped this girl to live again.
Another scientific journal, Livescience, said that in another case, a Japanese climber named Mitsutaka Uchikoshi during a snow climb in 2006 fell and was buried under cold snow. 23 days later, this man was discovered when his body was frozen and his body temperature was 22oC. The life of returning to Uchikoshi after nearly a month of being buried under thick snow has really surprised scientists.
Previously, a 6-month-old baby in Finchley (London, England) was also chilled for 20 minutes for a doctor to clear blood vessels to the heart.
This method has become increasingly popular in the US. Even New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked all ambulances in the city to have a cold storage device to provide emergency treatment to heart attack patients.
Since ancient times, Greek physicians have packed wounded soldiers in snow and ice. Modern scientists have found that children who fall into glaciers can live longer than drowning children at normal temperatures.
'The mechanism of this treatment is still mysterious, but low body temperature increases the survival of those who die clinically due to heart attack' - Dr. Michael Sayre, American Heart Association said.