Jorge Valdez was filming an audition tape for a Cirque De Soleil team when he misjudged a landing and which dislocated two of his vertebrae.
The 20 year old gymnast was left in a condition where he was unable to walk and only move his hands slightly. After being airlifted to a Miami hospital the doctors on hand determined he would be a prime candidate for a new cooling procedure administered to people with spinal injuries.
ABC provides a detailed description of the surgery - "after surgeons removed the disc that was pressing on the spine and fixed the dislocations, a catheter cooled by chilled saline was inserted into Jorge's groin. The chilled catheter cooled down his blood as it passed through it, his internal body temperature down to about 92 degrees Fahrenheit. He was kept in a medically-induced coma and in that hypothermic state for 48 hours post-operation."
Jorge went into surgery Thursday, woke up Saturday and was walking on Wednesday, Doctors warn people to not think that any sort of injury can be fixed via this cooling method. What saved Jorge was the speed in which they transported him and got him in right of the front people. Sounds like we need EMT vehicles capable of teleportation.
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