Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jacques Bilinski & Barbara Bradbury <jbilin@axionet.com> wrote: >> A drunk was brought into our local emergency room after a night out.He had a >> core temperature of allmost 20 degrees centigrade.I,ve been told that the >> enormous alcohol content of his blood made him survive.Had something to do >> with how vessels in the periphery of the body react to alcohol i forgot >> exactely how. >> > >When that ferry sank in the Baltic Sea about 10 or more years back many of >the survivors who survived the longest in the cold water were the ones who >were highly annebriated. If the survival rate of the drunks was higher than that of the sober passengers, I'd like to hear from some of the MDs on the list explaining the difference in survival rates... I'd imagine that since alcohol dialates the capillaries the drunks' heat loss would be significantly greater than the sober survivors. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html