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The Star: He was found frozen in a snowbank, with no pulse — and he survived

January 25, 2016 — 

Doctors were able to bring a man, frozen and basically dead, back to life, the Toronto Star reports. U of M prof Gordon Giesbrecht explained a bit of his research to the paper:

“We’ve learned that there really is no temperature so low that you shouldn’t try to save someone,” University of Manitoba thermophysiologist Gordon Giesbrecht, informally known among hypothermia scholars as “Professor Popsicle.”

 

 

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