Word: hypothermia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the plane landed, a cabin cleaner heard a muffled cry from a cabinet beneath the sink. There, covered with paper towels, was a newborn girl, umbilical cord still attached. The 8-lb. 9-oz. infant appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but otherwise seemed healthy. After the mother, Christina LoCasto, 24, of Staten Island, N.Y., turned herself in, authorities charged her with child endangerment. The 5-ft. 7-in., 155-lb. woman had not appeared pregnant to flight attendants, and even her husband says he was unaware of her condition...
...oxygen and nutrients, metabolic demands would be reduced to a minimum by lowering the babies' body temperature to 68 degrees F, putting them into a state of suspended animation. Because their brains are resilient, children below the age of 18 months have a remarkable capacity to recover from induced hypothermia, which is frequently used in pediatric heart surgery. Even so, doctors figured that once the hearts were stopped, the doctors had no more than one hour to complete the separation and reconstruction before irreparable damage would occur...
More than 70 activists yesterday protested hypothermia research conducted on baboons at the Boston University Medical Center...
...first couple of hours of the frantic rescue effort, officials held out hope that passengers might still be alive in air pockets inside the vessel. But doctors pointed out that potentially deadly hypothermia sets in soon after submersion in icy water, and by the time the rescue operation was suspended early Saturday morning, no real hope remained for those who had not been found...
...women and men with anorexia and bulimia are on physical roller coster rides. The physical repercussions can be deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...