About 300,000 people in the U.S. suffer cardiac arrest each
year. Fewer than 10 percent of those victims survive when it
occurs outside a hospital, and of those, only a minority recover
sufficient brain function to return their lives to normal. A new
study by the Minneapolis Heart Institute shows evidence that
using a treatment to effectively cool a patient's body
temperature by eight degrees can greatly increase a patient's
survival and brain function. Allen Fields, Cardiac Arrest
Patient says: "it's extremely important, valuable. It obviously
saved my life." Allen Fields' heart stopped beating, while he
was running the la jolla half-marathon, last year... but Fields
still calls it his "lucky day." Allen Fields says: "I was
fortunate enough to have doctors in the race and doubly
fortunate to be a little faster than they were because if they
were in front of me, they would've never found me." Those
doctors got Allen's heart beating again. Allen Fields says:
"When I woke up, I wasn't even aware that that had e