n When their blood pressure
starts going
down, their heart rate goes up. Their blood pressure may go
down. Their respirations may
increase and then
the patient experiences what’s called
a mammalian’s diver’s reflex where by the blood is shunted to the central part of the body
from the periphery
of the body. So that usually two
to three days prior to death, sometimes
four days, the hands and the feet become extremely cold. They become mottled. That is you look at the hands and they have a
bluish appearance.
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