[TML] Low Berths

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/2/08 9:36 PM, "Robert O'Connor" <robocon at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> By reducing metabolic rate by a factor of 60, body temperature falls
> over 4-6 hours, eventually equilibrating with room temperature. This is
> a consequence of physiology and physics, and kind of hard to handwave away.

All your comments following this seem to be derived from the body
temperature problem...

Never heard of blankets & heating pads?!?

> I do not see Fast Drug having a legitimate clinical use except for one
> situation - to delay the death of a critically ill patient until they
> can reach a place of definitive care where low berthing is not available
> as a transport option.

Which has all the same problems of using it for travel.  If you solve one,
you've solved the other.