Iceman Page #3

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his stomach was full of buttercups.

This iceman, maybe it

was something he ate.

Son of a b*tch!

What have you got?

Same old thing.

What?

Naw, it's probably a malfunction.

- What's what?

- Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I'm reading something.

Shepherd, please.

- What does it look like, Maynard?

- It's sorta like slow wave activity.

God damn it, that's brain activity.

Cold call.

- E.K.G.?

- Flatline.

Okay, give me an amp of calcium, an amp

of epinephrine, 2 amps of bicarb.

If you think of a tube, let's get a ventilator in here.

- What that mean?

- Probably nothing.

Where's the god damned cart?

- E.E.G.

- E.K.G.

- Four G clear.

- Slow wave, deep cortical activity.

Mid-brain function.

- Who?

- Him.

- Him?

- Him.

These are by P which is Greek to me.

- I have some calcium and epinephrine standing by.

- Twenty watts.

- Stand clear.

- All clear.

- E.K.G.?

- Still force fib.

Another amp, calcium and I have

to have some lidocain standing by.

- What's happening?

- Brain activity.

- Ready and clear.

- All clear.

- V-tach, rate's one-seventy.

- Are you sure about that?

Yeah.

- One hundred lidocaine.

- I got one mil per minute.

- Give me 50 watts.

- 50 watts.

- Charge.

- Stand clear.

- All clear.

- Functional rhythm.

He's alive.

Amazing.

You know, I thought he's have more hair.

- But he looks strong.

- Yeah, I'm sure he had to be.

Can I have a look?

- How does he look?

- Compared to what?

Temp's normal, urine output

100 c.c.'s an hour, B.U.N. normal.

Cardiac output six liters, blood gasses

are good, 12 hours off the ventilator.

Higher cortical activity,

but not like ours.

No, more like Shepherd's.

- Or a premature baby.

- What do you think?

I think he might be conscious,

but I DON'T think he's going to make the Super Bowl.

- Trach.

- Clear his throat.

- I got it.

- Valium, 10 milligrams.

Put it in, put it in now.

Where's the respirator?

Don't panic, everybody just take it easy.

Hands off, hands off.

Heartbeat's okay.

Another valium.

- What is that?

- Kill that band.

Shepherd, what the hell are you doing?

You're not sterile!

Do not touch him!

The electrolytes are still normal,

blood sugar is 80.

Might want to start him on hyper-alimentation,

avoid any chance of hypoglycemia.

No sign of sepsis, the blood

cultures are negative.

Will he live, will he be okay?

- Heart rate hit 200, his blood pressure peaked.

- A massive at adrenergic discharge.

- What does that mean?

- Means we scared the sh*t out of him.

Now...

just what does this mean to us?

- Well, maybe a Nobel prize.

- Maybe as big as Genentech.

- Maybe bigger.

- Bigger than gene splicing?

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