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Summary Box: Study tests cooling for heart attacks
By The Associated Press | 05 Dec 2008 | 01:40 PM ET
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COLD AS ICE: There's strong evidence that chilling the body can help limit damage from cardiac arrest, when the heart has stopped beating.

NEW STUDY: Now doctors in New Orleans will test therapeutic cooling for heart attacks, which strike 1 million Americans a year.

COOLING SUIT: New equipment makes it possible to cool the body from its normal 98.6 degrees to about 90 degrees in roughly a half-hour.

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