Doctors 'Freeze' North Carolina Mom Amy Moore to Save Her Life

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Amazing.

Doctors 'Freeze' North Carolina Mom Amy Moore to Save Her Life
After 'Cardiac Death,' North Carolina Woman Saved by Cooling Procedure

10 comments By DEBORAH ROBERTS and KRISTINA COLLINS, M.D.
Nov. 9, 2010

Doctors may have saved a North Carolina woman's life recently by literally putting her body on ice.

Amy Moore, a 38-year-old mother, was all but dead when she collapsed at her workplace on Sept. 14, suffering what's called "sudden cardiac death" -- despite having no pre-existing heart conditions. According to doctors at the University of North Carolina where Moore was treated, she had no pulse for 20 minutes.
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"She was in really bad shape. It was very scary, she was unconscious, but she was fighting tremendously," said her husband, Jacob Moore
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Moore was wrapped in an ice-cold blanket and injected with freezing fluids to bring her temperature down to just 93 degrees, well below the body's normal 98.6 degree temperature. Her body was kept in that state for two days.

The cooling put Moore's brain into a dormant state, helping to avoid the brain damage that comes when the heart temporarily stops providing the brain with blood.

...more at the link
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/north-carolina-mom-saved-cardiac-death-cooling-procedure/story?id=12101812

[sakabatou]

1. They did this on House once

The difficult part will be bringing her back up.

[EmilyKent]

2. She's already up.

[Odin2005]

3. I believe that's the 2 episodes where they were trying to save Amber...

...after she and House got into a crash while on the bus.

[kestrel91316]

4. Misleading headline - she wasn't even close to freezing, but was merely cooled.

[Orrex]

6. Well, poo.

Have you never heard someone in a swimming pool with 68°F water describe that water as "freezing?"

Same thing.

[Heddi]

5. Therapeutic hypothermia has been done for a while...I just cooled someone down

2 days ago. We measure core body temperature with either an esophageal or rectal thermometer, put cooling pads on them and bring the body temperature down....I hate news stories that take something like this, that's been done for a relatively good amount of time and jazz it up and dumb it down to make it sound like some crazy ass shit that someone just thought up at the drop of a hat. There is a ton of research and studies into therapeutic hypothermia/cooling procedures.

[unc70]

7. New standard procedure -- Chest compression CPR also helps

Family member went 12-13 minutes without pulse; someone present had been taught chest compression CPR and they continued them until EMS arrived and eventually restarted her heart. Essentially a full recovery after 6-8 weeks.

She was not here at UNC, but in another state where this protocol is now standard. Most parts of NC are now using this protocol.

Applying CPR with just chest compressions greatly increases the recovery rates.