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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Back in 2013, Russian scientists discovered a well-preserved woolly mammoth carcass trapped in the permafrost of northern Siberia for some 42,000 years. Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water. They named the specimen Buttercup (of course).

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Eric: I got a question because it was a ways back, but we did a podcast on keep your hands to yourself from a JAMA IMR article that showed that use of mechanical ventilation for nursing home residents with advanced dementia doubled between 2000 and 2013, that was a John Tino study. How do I reconcile these two issues?