摘要
去年12月一位64岁的德鲁斯老妇摔倒在冰上，由于关节炎而无法站立。她在雪中躺了好几个小时，体温降至70华氏度（约21摄氏度），心跳一度停止，生命垂危。但在医生的抢救下恢复了过来。现代医学仍在研究人类身体承受的极限，但杜克大学的医师德劳德·皮恩塔多斯称过了某个临界点，医生也无力回天。以下就是关于人类承受极限的一些数值。
A 64-year-old Duluth woman fell on the ice last December, Arthritis kept her from getting up. She lay in the snow for hours. Her temperature dipped to 70.F. Her heart stopped. She should have been a goner. But doctors revived her; today she is fine. Medical science is always learning more about how much a body can take. Yet as Duke University physician Dlaude Piantadosi notes, ＂At some point it＇s impossible to rescue yourself.＂ Here＇s current thinking on the extremes of human endurance.
出处
《海外英语》
2009年第12期20-20,共1页
Overseas English
