Fifi the Undead.
Posted on 06/26/2005 8:25:28 PM PDT by Piefloater
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
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.
However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,
But even a this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
Duing the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.
Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.
Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
"The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.
Ok, I get the zombie dog concept, but what's a boffin?
With this and the Bonsai Kitties site I have to wonder if we're living in a George Romero movie.
is that new movie any good?
A scientist, especially one engaged in research.
"Boffins": (Bôf ' ns) noun - the name for scientists and scholars working quietly to develop new and exciting techniques and skills
Fifi the Undead.
Paging Mary Shelly!!
Fifi the Undead.
This raises some intriguing questions on the nature of consciousness, the meaning of life and death, and, if they're able to duplicate this procedure on humans, what constitutes the soul--or whether it even exists.
Bah! Server fart.
Great news from the new-age scientific community; they can kill a dog and after three hours of clinical death can bring it back to life. Soon they will make a 'zombie human' and then make a clone of the zombie. It can be adopted by two lesbians and grow up to be Chairman of the DNC.
Abyssly cool.
She looks like Ter-ray-za on a bad day.
Whatever they are, apparently you've got to join to be one:
Oh, I can imagine the volunteers.
I dunno. I don't think George Romero has learned anything about directing movies in 40 years. I liked the remake of Dawn of the Dead better than the original.
Hmmm..... I'm skeptical that this is even true....
I don't know the Austrailian source or it's credibility, but I'm suspect when the included picture at the site is of a snarling wolf, trying to play up the 'scary zombie' aspect of the story, rather than the obvious medical ramifications of this.
Don't think they can do this in the US. No informed consent.
The fda stopped research on a CPR device a few years ago because there was no informed consent on the research study subjects.
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