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Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by luchiano1(m): 2:59pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
Medical advances mean it will soon be
possible to bring the dead back to life, a
doctor claims.
Modern techniques will enable a patient to
be revived up to 24 hours after they stop
breathing, Dr Sam Parnia says.
The American critical care physician, who
trained in London, said: ‘We may soon be
rescuing people from death’s clutches
hours, or even longer, after they have
actually died.’
He claims the US actor James Gandolfini,
star of The Sopranos – who died in June
aged 51 in Rome – might have survived if
he had suffered his massive heart attack in
New York.
‘I believe if he died here, he could still be
alive. We’d cool him down, pump oxygen
to the tissues, which prevents them from
dying,’ Dr Parnia told Germany’s Der
Spiegel magazine. ‘Clinically dead, he
could then be cared for by the cardiologist.
He would make an angiogram, find the
clot, take it out, put in a stent and we
would restart the heart.’
Dr Parnia, whose new book on
resuscitation science is called Erasing
Death, said death should be reversible for
many patients, providing they are in the
right place getting the right treatment.
‘Of course we can’t rescue everybody and
many people with heart attacks have other
major problems,’ he said. ‘But if all the
latest medical technologies and training
had been implemented, which clearly
hasn’t been done, then in principle the
only people who should die and stay dead
are those that have an underlying
condition that is untreatable.
‘A heart attack is treatable. Blood loss as
well. A terminal cancer isn’t, neither are
many infections with multiresistant
pathogens. In these cases, even if we’d
restart the heart, it would stop again and
again.
‘My basic message: The death we
commonly perceive today in 2013 is a
death that can be reversed.’ Dr Parnia,
head of intensive care at the Stony Brook
University Hospital in New York, said
resuscitation figures tell their own story.
The average resuscitation rate for cardiac
arrest patients is 18 per cent in US
hospitals and 16 per cent in Britain. But at
his hospital it is 33 per cent – and the rate
peaked at 38 per cent earlier this year.
‘Most, but not all of our patients, get
discharged with no neurological damage
whatsoever,’ he said, adding that it is a
‘widely held misconception’ – even among
doctors – that the brain begins to suffer
massive damage from oxygen deprivation
three to five minutes after the heart stops.
‘In the past decade we have seen
tremendous progress. With today’s
medicine, we can bring people back to life
up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes
even longer, after their heart stopped
beating and they have thus died by
circulatory failure.
‘In the future, we will likely get better at
reversing death.’
The techniques he advocates are not
cryogenics – freezing the body
immediately after death – but cooling it
down to best preserve brain cells while
keeping up the level of oxygen in the
blood. This buys time to fix the underlying
problem and restart the heart, he claims.
He says that if someone collapses with a
heart attack, call 999 then immediately
place bags of frozen vegetables on them
until the ambulance arrives, as it helps
protect the brain.
‘It is possible that in 20 years, we may be
able to restore people to life 12 hours or
maybe even 24 hours after they have died.
‘You could call that resurrection, if you
will. But I still call it resuscitation science.’
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Nobody: 3:00pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by hertz9te(m): 3:02pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by agentofchange1(m): 3:03pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Slimzjoe(m): 3:13pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Eeser: 3:15pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
It doesn't add up? |
Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by luchiano1(m): 3:18pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
Of course it does add up. Science is truly exceptional 1 Like |
Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Slimzjoe(m): 3:19pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
The Explanations Giving up there Looks Feasible But I still have my Reservations |
Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Nobody: 3:25pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by luchiano1(m): 3:27pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
If scientists were 2 raise any nigerian leader from dead, who wld u want? Abacha!!! |
Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by RobinHez(m): 3:30pm On Aug 03, 2015 |
‘You could call that resurrection, if you will. But I still call it resuscitation science.’Gbam!! Nothing more to add... Google it up and see for urself!
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Re: Scientists Will Soon Be Able To Raise The Dead by Jamaticulus(m): 2:23am On Aug 04, 2015 |
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