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The Ultimate Comeback: Bringing The Dead Back To Life by Nobody: 1:55am On Jul 12, 2014
A radical procedure that involves replacing a patient's blood with cold salt water could retrieve people from the brink of death, says David
“When you are at 10C, with no brain activity, no heartbeat, no blood – everyone would agree that you’re dead,” says Peter Rhee at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “But we can still bring you back.”

Rhee isn’t exaggerating. With Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland, College Park, he has shown that it’s possible to keep bodies in ‘suspended animation’ for hours at a time. The procedure, so far tested on animals, is about as radical as any medical procedure comes: it involves draining the body of its blood and cooling it more than 20C below normal body temperature.

Once the injury is fixed, blood is pumped once again through the veins, and the body is slowly warmed back up. “As the blood is pumped in, the body turns pink right away,” says Rhee. At a certain temperature, the heart flickers into life of its own accord. “It’s quite curious, at 30C the heart will beat once, as if out of nowhere, then again – then as it gets even warmer it picks up all by itself.” Astonishingly, the animals in their experiments show very few ill-effects once they’ve woken up. “They’d be groggy for a little bit but back to normal the day after,” says Tisherman.


Source: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704-i-bring-the-dead-back-to-life
Re: The Ultimate Comeback: Bringing The Dead Back To Life by decode55(m): 3:32am On Jul 12, 2014
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Re: The Ultimate Comeback: Bringing The Dead Back To Life by Nobody: 5:05am On Jul 12, 2014
These men are truly jobless.

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