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Title: Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment (AP)
Post by: riky on December 05, 2008, 11:00:42 PM
Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment
    (AP)

 



<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081205/capt.ba7c711773c64f5394035fefe9004473.hearts_on_ice_ny378.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=DW.UWHO8HmbF3i5qiYAZVw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A patient is cooled in the thermosuit Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 at Ochsner Hospital in Jefferson, La., a suburb of New Orleans. A pump rapidly inflates it as doctors Velcro on a plastic topsheet. Tubes spray naked patients with frigid water as other tubes drain it away, taking heat from the patient's skin with it. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081205/ap_on_he_me/med_hearts_on_ice)AP - It took five mighty shocks to get Cynthia Crawford's heart to start beating again after she collapsed at Ochsner Clinic a few weeks ago.</p><br clear="all"/>


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