Posted on 06/29/2005 3:10:22 AM PDT by ex-Texan
SCIENTISTS have created "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 this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
During 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.
I hear the first human experiment is already underway. Doctors brought this thing back to life with the icewater-in-the- veins trick. Turns out she liked it and decided to keep the ice water.
da,da,da,da,da,da,da,da---(music running through my head)
During 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.
Oh dear God!! They actually figured out how to make the process used in the movie "Universal Soldier" a reality.
And that was a pretty good movie.
I don't know which image is funnier. But you could combine the ideas and create a *.gif of Hillary! with electric bolts in her neck.
How long before PETA is all over this?
Whups! Looks like they defrosted this test subject a little too rapidly.
Leave it to the 'roo rapers to go tabloid on this. For an actual news account of this new procedure>http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_348517.html
"The British tabloid press caught wind of this work and a series of hair-raising stories began to circulate on the Internet last weekend referring to "zombie dogs," complete with inflammatory werewolf photos. The stories have made their way through cyberspace to media outlets as far away as Australia.
"It's so unfair and so bizarre," Kochanek said. "Somebody must have thought the title 'zombie dog' would be a catchy phrase. Obviously they were right, but obviously that is the farthest thing from what we are doing, which is trying to save lives."
Soldiers in combat and gunshot or stabbing victims often bleed to death because medics don't have enough time to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or deliver blood. This type of injury kills about 50,000 Americans every year and is the leading cause of death among troops killed in action, said nationally recognized trauma surgeon Dr. Howard Champion, who lives in Annapolis, Md. "
I'm on the same page with you on this !
You mean PETA wants to bring all the dogs they've killed back to life?
This writer focused on the "zombie dog" twist. The real story is the possibilities for saving human lives.
I hear they saved Hitler's brain.
"Resident Evil" ping
Yes, and now The Chief will be able to remove that bomb that General Immortus attached to his heart!
(Let's see if anybody recognizes THAT reference!)
= )
Not yet. It is my understanding they're trying to work with larger dumb animals to see if it'll be okay in the middle size range of humans and pigs. For example, below we see a buffalo test subject in special 'tent' size thermos wrappings undergoing a saline injection for the first time:
Certainly, not I.
Volunteers are being signed up at the campus medical facility.
I'm sure glad THAT picture didn't appear on my monitor, as I've not had breakfast yet!
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