This article says that scientists have found a way to reanimate a dog who had been clinically dead for 3 hours.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
I really don’t know what to think of this. Can this really be true? When I googled the name of the center doing this research, I came up with the following article:
This obituary for the scientist they named the center after has some interesting points
Dr. Peter Safar, the internationally renowned physician-researcher often called “the Father of CPR,” died of cancer Sunday evening at his Mt. Lebanon home. He was 79.
Dr. Peter Safar: A life devoted to cheating death, March 31, 2002
His latest research passion was to make a reality of rescuing the brain as well as the heart and lungs from potentially fatal damage in what he dubbed cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, or CPCR.
The motivation for that work came out of the 1966 death of his 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who lapsed into a coma after a severe asthma attack. The resuscitation expert could revive his daughter’s heart and lungs, but not her brain.
As part of that focus, Dr. Safar worked on what he called “suspended animation for delayed resuscitation,” in which body cooling techniques are employed to buy time for life-saving medical and surgical interventions.
He began developing that idea almost a decade ago with Dr. Lyn Yaffe, then in charge of combat casualty care research for the U.S. Navy. The projects are now sponsored by the U.S. Army. Many years of promising laboratory and animal experiments at the Safar Center and other research centers have paved the way for initial human trials of therapeutic hypothermia for traumatic shock.
This is truly amazing.
I saw that zombie dogs article yesterday. I don’t know whether to be excited or frightened by it.
Maybe they better watch the dogs a while longer…