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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Baby Frozen for 3 Days is Alive

I’ve often wondered if any of those frozen heads that cryogenics companies have on ice will ever see the light of day again, but it looks like science has taken one step closer to bringing people back from the deep freeze. 

Doctors at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, England received emergency patient, newborn infant Ella Claxton, to be “frozen” so that swelling in her brain due to a difficult birth could be minimized. They didn’t actually freeze her like you freeze a popsicle, but her body temperature ” was lowered to below the level at which hypothermia occurs”.

Although she was kept like that for THREE DAYS, she was carefully monitored and now, thought she needs physiotherapy, she is going to be fine

 
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