Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > > >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. > I'd be interested to know more too. From what I recall hearing in the press at the time there were some passengers who were fished out of the ocean with greatly reduced body temperatures in coma like states. These are ones where the alcohol increased the chance of survival. These were not 'normal' cases of hypothermia where the individual is concious or semi-concious. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html