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2007-02-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

NYC Student's Heart Starts Beating Days After Stopping

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-13 10:43|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How much ice is Anna Nicole stored in?
Bizarre as this thing's been, if she came back, it wouldn't surprise me at all...

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-13 11:02|| 2007-02-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 In one of those silly, common sense moments, a few years ago heart surgeons learned that as long as the blood was circulating properly and being re-oxygenated, it didn't need a heartbeat.

For years they just assumed that a heartbeat was an essential part of the circulation. This made heart-lung machines much more complex than they needed to be.

Another odd trivia bit that might explain why people can't survive on artificial hearts for too long, was the discovery that the heart actually secretes a tiny amount of some hormone of indeterminate purpose.

Never heard any follow-up to this one, though.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-13 14:51|| 2007-02-13 14:51|| Front Page Top

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