Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Physicians noticed centuries ago that people exposed to cold temperatures often have amazing recoveries from serious medical emergencies. Now medicine is learning how to purposefully induce hypothermia in order to buy time to fix otherwise fatal trauma. Find out all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Josh and for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2015 episode on
0:06.4	therapeutic hypothermia.
0:07.8	It sounds weird and boring and it's a really super-sciencey app, but sometimes, sometimes,
0:14.6	those can be the best ones.
0:16.5	This topic is super interesting.
0:18.4	It's a look at how science can stave off death and hopefully it's the direction that
0:22.7	modern medicine is heading.
0:24.4	Plus, if you get bored, you can throw the hearing as try to say cellular level here or there.
0:29.9	It's hilarious.
0:30.9	Enjoy.
0:31.9	I command you.
0:34.9	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:43.8	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:47.8	I'm Josh Clark.
0:49.3	There's Charles W. Eager Beaver, Chuckers Bryant.
0:53.0	Ready to get his therapeutic hypothermia on?
0:56.4	Yeah, baby.
0:57.4	I'm chilling.
0:58.4	Yeah, moving at a glacial pace today, right?
1:01.5	I am.
1:02.6	I'm sorry for that.
1:04.5	That was actually a poke at the author of this article.
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