GAYRI VICTIMS-NOBODY IS DEAD UNTIL...

PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN,HEAD OF CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT;M.Sc CHEMISTRY;MA HISTORY;MA POLITICAL SCIENCE;MA ISLAMIC EDUCATION,CSS AND PCS QUALIFIED,FREE LANCE JOURNALIST,ETC.03336700587 MOBILE NUMBER                               

Subject: GAYRI VICTIMS-NOBODY IS DEAD UNTIL...

 WAQAR HUSSAIN (14/29-A SAMANABAD LAHORE)FREELANCER

        AVALANCHE TRAVELS AT A SPEED OF 160 KM PER HOUR DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH AND IS CULPRIT BEHIND 150 DEATHS YEARLY WORLDWIDE. AVALANCHE SURVIVAL GRAPH SHOWS 95% SURVIVAL IN FIRST 15 MINUTES;30% IN 60 MINS;12% IN 120 MINS AND 0% IN 47520 MINS(33 DAYS).SO THERE IS NO CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AT GAYRI.WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING:"THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE OF FINDING ANY SURVIVOR AT THE ALTITUDE OF 4000 METERS ,BELOW ZERO .THE ORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE SAME RESULT IN THEIR MIND.SO,ALL ARE UP TO DECLARE "ALL DEAD" AT GAYRI.BUT I THINK OTHERWISE!

        DURING 80'S ,MANY PEOPLE WERE BURIED UNDER AN EVER PILING SNOW.AFTER MANY DAYS OF SNOWFALL ,THE RESCUE TEAM DUG OUT HARDENED BODIES AND BROUGHT THEM TO HOSPITALS.WHERE, SOME DEAD CAME TO LIFE IN THE WARMTH.IT TRIGGERED A DEBATE IN THE ARENA OF SCIENCE.DOCTORS, PHYSICISTS,BIOLOGISTS,CHEMISTS.ALL EXPLAINED THE STRANGE PHENOMENON IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR FIELDS.I WAS STUDYING IN B.Sc AT F.C.COLLEGE LAHORE.CAME UP WITH IDEA;" TEMP AND MOTION OF PARTICLES GO ALONG. LOWERING TEMP,SLOWS DOWN THE MOTION OF PARTICLES, AND NEAR ABSOLUTE ZERO,MOTION ALMOST STOPS.BRINGING ENTIRE REACTIONS TO A HALT.SO,BODY CAN BE PRESERVED FOR YEARS WITHOUT DETERIORATION.FRIGID MAN IS APPARENTLY DEAD,IN FACT,HE IS IN DEEP SLUMBER WHICH NOW SCIENTISTS TERM "CLINICAL DEATH"(CD).THEN BY INCREASING TEMP GRADUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY RESTORATION OF BLOOD CIRCULATION AND BREATH FRIGID MAN CAN COME OUT OF DEEP SLEEP".SOME MAY SAY THAT THIS IS SCIENCE FICTION,BUT MIRACLES DO HAPPEN AFTERALL!

          I HAVE COME TO KNOW THAT THE ABOVE IDEA WAS AGED LONG.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN REGRETTED IN 1773 "HE LIVED IN CENTURY TOO LITTLE ADVANCE AND TOO NEAR THE INFANCY OF SCIENE,THAT HE COULD NOT BE PRESERVED AND REVIVED TO FULFILL HIS ARDENT DESIRE TO SEE USA A HUNDRED YEAR HENCE".FRANKLIN'S WISH CONTAINED THE HINT OF REVIVAL FROM DEEP SLEEP.

          THEN A NEW BRANCH OF SCIENCE"CRYONICS"EMERGED IN 1962 WHEN PHYSICIST ROBERT ETTINGER PROPOSED "FREEZING PEOPLE MAY BE A WAY TO REACH FUTURE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY.EVEN THOUGH FREEZING A PERSON IS APPARENTLY FATAL,ETTINGER ARGUED THAT WHAT APPEARS TO BE FATAL TODAY MAY BE PRACTICABLE IN THE FUTURE".

         IT IS PERTINENT HERE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN CLINICAL DEATH AND BIOLOGICAL DEATH.THE FORMER IS THE CESSATION OF BLOOD CIRCULATION AND BREATHING DUE TO STOPPAGE OF HEART BEAT.BIOLOGICAL DEATH(BD) OCCURS FOUR TO SIX MINUTES  LATER AT NORMAL TEMP,WHEN BRAIN CELLS DIE DUE TO LACK OF OXYGEN.REVERSAL FROM CD IS RARE BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.CD IS A PHASE BEFORE PERMANENT,IRREVERSIBLE BIOLOGICAL DEATH.

        IN 1990,PETER SAFAR DISCOVERED THAT BY REDUCING BODY TEMP BY 3C FOLLOWED BY CPR ,COULD DOUBLE THE TIME WINDOW OF RECOVERY FROM CD.EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED ON DOGS,CATS ETC IN LOW TEMP INCREASED THE TIME OF REVIVAL UP TO 3 HRS .ACCORDING TO Q 10 RULE,RATE OF BIOCHEMICAL REACTION DECREASES BY A FACTOR OF TWO FOR EVERY 10 C REDUCTION IN TEMP.A HUMAN CAN SURVIVE ONE HOUR AFTER CD AT -20 C.FAMOUS ARRHENIUS EQUATION CORRELATE TEMP AND RATE OF REACTION PROPORTIONALLY .THUS LOWERING OF TEMP LOWERS RATE OF BIOCHEMICAL REACTION.EXTRAPOLATION OF TEMP-RATE GRAPH SHOWS CESSATION OF REACTION AT LOW TEMP AROUND -200 C.AS A RESULT,CD CANNOT PROCEED TO ITS FINAL DESTINATION OF BD,RATHER HALTS ,MAKING  REVERSAL POSSIBLE.

           IN REAL LIFE ,THERE ARE MANY INCIDENTS OF REVERSAL FROM DEEP SLEEP.

           IN 1999,A  SWEDISH WOMAN ANNA BAGENHOLM WAS TRAPPED IN ICE FOR 80 MIN AND SURVIVED TO FULL RECOVERY.

           IN 1976,GEORGE RODONAIA,A RUSSIAN,WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AND WAS LEFT IN MORGUE FOR 3 DAYS IN COLD STORAGE.DURING AUTOPSY,HE GAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CAME OUT OF DEEP  SLEEP OF CD.

          IN 1999, RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER PRAVDA REPORTED A REMARKABLE EVENT. A MAN NAMED MECHNICK ATTEMPTED TO KILL GRANATKIN;HE HIT HIM ON THE HEAD,TOOK THE BODY TO THE FOREST AND BURIED IT UNDER THE SNOW.LUMBER-MEN INCIDENTLY UNCOVERED THE FROZEN BODY AND TOOK IT TO MORGUE.THE PATHOLOGIST REFUSED TO DO THE AUTOPSY SAYING"THE BODY WAS TOO HARD".HIS BODY WAS ALLOWED TO COME TO ROOM TEMP.ON FINDING HIS BODY SOFT AND PULPY, THE PATHOLOGIST MADE HIS MIND TO UNDERGO AUTOPSY BUT WAS ASTONISHED TO FIND HIS EYE PUPIL ALIVE.THE MAN SPENT 22 DAYS LYING UNDER THICK LAYER OF SNOW,BUT IT APPEARED THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE.TO EVERYONE'S ASTONISHMENT,GRANATKIN CAME TO HIS SENSES AND RECOVERED.

             ABOUT TWO CENTURIES AGO,THERE WERE WIDESPREAD TALKS AND RUMORS ABOUT LETHARGIC SLEEP.RUSSIAN NIKOLAI GOGOL FELL INTO LETHARGIC SLEEP; HE WAS BURIED ALIVE, AS IT TURNED OUT AFTERWARD. DOCTORS  OFTEN CONSIDER THESE BREATHLESS, BEAT LESS SLEEPING PATIENTS DEAD AND SEND THEM TO EITHER GRAVEYARD OR A MORGUE WHERE THESE PATIENTS MEET BIOLOGICAL DEATH. IN ENGLAND, COFFINS WERE BEING MOVED FROM ONE GRAVEYARD TO ANOTHER.ON SELECTIVE INSPECTION OF COFFINS,THE TEAM DISCOVERED FOUR SKELETONS ,THE POSITIONING OF WHICH IN THEIR COFFINS, SUGGESTED THAT DECEASED PEOPLE CAME TO THEIR SENSES AFTER THEY WERE BURIED.THE TERMINOLOGY OF" PROFOUND SLEEP" 'LETHARGIC SLEEP OF PAST SEEMS ANALOGOUS TO MODERN DAY TERM OF CLINICAL DEATH.WHAT HORRIFIES A COMMON MAN IS THE WORD "DEAD" BECAUSE HE THINKS THAT IT IS IRREVERSIBLE ,BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT IT CAN BE A "DEEP SLEEP", AND IT IS THAT WHICH CAN BE REVERSED.

         ABOVE MENTIONED EVENTS OCCURRED IN COLD AREAS LIKE RUSSIA,USA,UK.PROBABLY,LOW TEMP BLOCKED THE WAY TO BIOLOGICAL DEATH THUS MADE THE REVERSAL POSSIBLE.WHY NOT! DO WE HOPE AND PRAY FOR GAYRI VICTIMS?

         CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION(CPR) IS HOPED TO BE AN IDEAL WAY OF REVERSAL FROM CD BY RESTORATION OF BLOOD CIRCULATION AND BREATHING .SO, CD IN SNOW BURIED CASES CAN BE REVERSED BY JUST WARMING THE BODY.IT IS A GOLDEN RULE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE:"NO BODY IS DEAD UNTIL HE IS WARM AND DEAD".SO,GENERAL KAYANI SAHIB! THE FROZEN BODIES  OF GAYRI VICTIMS MUST BE WARMED AND CPR ,DEFIBRILLATION,EPINEPHRINE INJECTIONS ETC  MUST BE PERFORMED BEFORE DECLARING ANYBODY DEAD.ONE MUST BE OPTIMISTIC AS 170 MILLION PEOPLE PRAYED FOR THE LIVES OF GAYRI BURIED SOLDIERS,AFTER ALL GOD IS THE ALL HEARING, OMNIPOTENT! 

Saturday, June 9, 2012