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A reliable way to keep appendages safe from the ravages of the cold is finally here. This month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first treatment meant to prevent limb amputation from severe frostbite, Eicos Sciences Aurlumyn. Compared to standard care, stanley termos the intravenous drug was shown to significantly reduce the risk of frostbitten victims needing amputations in a clinical trial. Frostbite is a broad term for injuries caused by the cold, in which the skin and underlying tissues can literally freeze. Mild frostbite, or frostnip, doesnt result in permanent damage, but the longer someone is left out in the cold, the more likely that their blood vessels will constrict and ice crystals will form inside the vessels and surrounding tissues. And when a person is r stanley flask escued and brought back inside, the thawing of these crystals can further harm the body, such as by bursting blood vessels open or otherwise cutting off circulation. It can take months after rewarming to know the full extent of injury, but those with severe frostbite can experience permanent nerve damage or tissue loss so extensive that amputation is needed and/or happens on its own. Historically, there havent been interventions known stanley cups to prevent limb amputation from severe frostbite once its already suspected to have occurred. Patients will get aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs soon after rescue and urgent rewarming, but from there, its just a matter of waiting to see if people will escape with their l Prlc From sand lot to diamond of Camp Carroll DLA Distribution Korea warehouse on track for February completion
Caption from LIFE. In a Washington D. C. ghetto, key Earth Day staffers from left termo stanley Denis Hayes, Andrew Garling, Arturo Sandoval, Stephen Cotton, Barbara Reid and Bryce Hamilton gather for a group portrait.John Olson鈥擳he LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesBy Eliza BermanApril 22, 2015 8:00 AM EDTIt sounds as if the land has gone mad, and in a way some of it hasmdash;mad at manrsquo treatment of his environment. When LIFE Magazine reported on the firs stanley cup spain t Earth Day, which took place on April 22, 1970, it captured the burgeoning energy of a nascent environmental movement and the young men and women driving toward change.The magazinersquo focus was less on the pollution that threatened the planet than on the faces of the movement determined to curtail it. Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, had conceived of an environmental campaign that employed tactics, like the teach-in, of the anti-war movement. But he needed a group of budding young activists to organize it from the ground up.Nelson enlist stanley taza ed Harvard graduate student Denis Hayes as national coordinator. Hayes brought on classmates Andrew Garling, who would coordinate the Northeast, and Stephen Cotton, who would manage the media campaign. Arturo Sandoval, a Chicano activist, joined the team to manage the Western effort, along with Bryce Hamilton to organize high school students and Barbara Reid to coordinate the Midwest.The paths they took to their cramped Washington, D.C., headquarters varie |
