Submission + - suspended animation trials to begin. future here I come! (newscientist.com)
Budgreen writes: I wonder if this can put to rest the whole life after death debate?
The technique involves replacing all of a patient's blood with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. "If a patient comes to us two hours after dying you can't bring them back to life. But if they're dying and you suspend them, you have a chance to bring them back after their structural problems have been fixed," says surgeonPeter Rheeat the University of Arizona in Tucson, who helped develop the technique.
The technique involves replacing all of a patient's blood with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. "If a patient comes to us two hours after dying you can't bring them back to life. But if they're dying and you suspend them, you have a chance to bring them back after their structural problems have been fixed," says surgeonPeter Rheeat the University of Arizona in Tucson, who helped develop the technique.
