[sumo] Police miss

[Kuramarujo]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:34 -0400, Judith Douglas wrote:

> In the simplest of terms,  most humans die of "heart failure" ;  but 
> the other factors leading up to this are voluminous.  In order to die,
> the heart needs to fail (the brain may be dead,  but the heart can
> beat for a long while).   There is another type of heart failure
> called "congestive heart failure"  but this is often a primary
> disease. When there have been insults to the body, too many to list,
> the heart simply fails to pump oxygenated blood to the other organs. 
> Essentially it can be called heart failure.  Cardiac ischemia implies 
> that the blood going to the heart is not oxygenated properly.  This 
> happens in the face of low blood pressure due to many factors;  ie:  
> decreased blood volume, low hemoglobin etc. 

	I've been watching a lot of the Discovery Health channel lately.  You
can learn a lot of things from shows like "Untold Stories of the ER",
"Trauma: Life in the ER" and "Code Blue."  One thing you find is that
the human body can, at times, be extremely resilient.

Kuramarujo

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Joe "Kuramarujo" Klemmer
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