the princess bride. he is almost dead or a little dead. right. i love that. i ve seen worse. well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. what ends up happening is creatures don t move. they actually appear dead, only they re not. with backing from the military, roth decided to try his experiment on mice. take a look here. here s the mouse getting a dose of toxic hydrogen sulfide. now, a normal mouse would just be a ball of activity. not this one. he isn t sleeping. he isn t dead. it s just that every process in his body, even death, is in slow-motion. when i came to visit, roth showed me how he did it. what you re doing here is you re just dimming the metabolism. just dimming the light a bit. outside the lab the theory goes like this. slowing things down would lengthen the window of survival. think about that.
outside the lab the theory goes like this. slowing things down would lengthen the window of survival. think about that. for soldiers who get shot and they are losing their blood, they die before they can get to definitive care. so, it s the same thing, right? you don t have enough oxygen. not so different than the mice we spoke about. where we could extend their survival limit. today we revived this rat after less than an hour. how is our rat doing? he s okay. he s starting to move around and stuff and he s started to get over the whole deal and behave. so, he s back? yes, he s back. but in the original experiment, roth kept that dimmer switch down for six hours, then brought the mice back to normal. it s not like they died. we stopped the experiment because we felt we made our point. it worked well enough to land roth in the pages of ripley s believe it or not. is there any reason why it wouldn t work in people? i m not aware of them, but
me that not everyone gets that chance. my dad lives in a really small town in the midwest. he has heart problems. if he were to have cardiac arrest, is he less likely to get this care that you re describing, he lives there, as compared to here? he has heart problems. if he were to have cardiac arrest, is he less likely to get this care that you re describing, he lives there, as compared to here? i think in general he is less likely. that s kind of scary to hear, you know, for the average person who, again, doesn t have this sort of access. we are not talking about a multibillion dollar drug here. we re talking about using a bunch of ice and cooling somebody down. if it can save lives, why don t we do this everywhere? it is staff and personnel intensive. it can t be done in a nonmonitored sort of way. you can t cool someone down too much because you can also injure them that way. so, if, you know, it has to be done carefully, but it s well within the capabilities of any hospital.
the princess bride. he is almost dead or a little dead. right. i love that. i ve seen worse. well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. what ends up happening is creatures don t move. they actually appear dead, only they re not. with backing from the military, roth decided to try his experiment on mice. take a look here. here s the mouse getting a dose of toxic hydrogen sulfide. now, a normal mouse would just be a ball of activity. not this one. he isn t sleeping. he isn t dead. it s just that every process in his body, even death, is in slow-motion. when i came to visit, roth showed me how he did it. what you re doing here is you re just dimming the metabolism. just dimming the light a bit. outside the lab the theory goes like this. slowing things down would lengthen the window of survival. think about that.
huge difference in terms of survival? it can double the chance of brain survival. this could? yes. yeah. it s amazing. you know, you think about multibillion dollar drugs, and that s what gets all the attention. this piece of plastic and this machine could double survival and no one talks about it. that s right. that s right. but hypothermia is also time sensitive. that means the sooner, the better. if i want to cool you down very rapidly, i don t have a good way to do it. we began working on how can we cool a person down quickly. so we decided to develop a human coolant. a human coolant? uh-huh. let s take a look. let s go. if you will, this is sort of our frankenstein version of a totally novel device. truth is, it s not ready to use on patients. but this gizmo could inject an icy solution to cool you down in a matter of minutes, instead of hours. doctors know if a critical patient is to survive, they ve got to be stabilized within 60 minutes, called the golde