On the Rocks

“At this point, the patient, his circulatory system filled with icy salt water, will have no blood, no pulse, and no brain activity. He will remain in this state of suspended animation for up to an hour, while surgeons locate the bullet holes or stab wounds and sew them up.” The New Yorker’s Nicola Twilley with an interesting look at how some ER doctors came to use hypothermia to save gunshot victims.