Archive for December 4th, 2009
S.D. doctor back from the dead, thanks to ice packs
[Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dec. 3, 2009] Putting people who “drop dead” from heart attack on ice can spare them brain damage. This doctor is living proof.
Dr. Larry Ebbert likes to say that he just happened to be changing planes in Minneapolis when he dropped dead in June.
That is why he lived to tell the tale.
See [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2009, 7:12 am under Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina Medical Transportation, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Star Tribune.
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Abbott Northwestern finds the value of a cold heart in hypothermia therapy for cardiac-arrest patients
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dec. 4, 2009] When Dan Horgan emerged from a coma — one week after suffering a severe cardiac arrest — one of his first thoughts was annoyance that his beard had been shaved off.
That faded quickly, though, as the 48-year-old father of two saw his friends’ and relatives’ joy — and [...]
Posted: December 4th, 2009, 7:00 am under Allina System.
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