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Scientists Brings Dogs Back to Life in Experiment with Promise for Humans
News.com.au ^ | 6/27/2005 | Nick Buchan

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.


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This writer focused on the "zombie dog" twist. The real story is the possibilities for saving human lives. This may be significant for battlefield casualties and victims of trauma and violence.
1 posted on 06/29/2005 3:10:23 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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2 posted on 06/29/2005 3:18:42 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-G-d, PRO-LIFE..." -- FR founder Jim Robinson)
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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.

3 posted on 06/29/2005 3:20:35 AM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: ex-Texan

da,da,da,da,da,da,da,da---(music running through my head)


4 posted on 06/29/2005 3:24:11 AM PDT by moog
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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.

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.

5 posted on 06/29/2005 3:24:32 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: WideGlide; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
LOL, LOL, LOL !

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.

6 posted on 06/29/2005 3:27:10 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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How long before PETA is all over this?


7 posted on 06/29/2005 3:29:25 AM PDT by commonasdirt (Reading DU so you won't hafta)
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Whups! Looks like they defrosted this test subject a little too rapidly.


8 posted on 06/29/2005 3:31:04 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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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. "


9 posted on 06/29/2005 3:31:52 AM PDT by chief_bigfoot ("isn't THAT amazing?" - Ron Popiel)
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I'm on the same page with you on this !


10 posted on 06/29/2005 3:33:16 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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How long before PETA is all over this?

You mean PETA wants to bring all the dogs they've killed back to life?

11 posted on 06/29/2005 3:34:37 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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This writer focused on the "zombie dog" twist. The real story is the possibilities for saving human lives.

Just another example of the news media types being completely out of contact with reality.
12 posted on 06/29/2005 3:35:37 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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I hear they saved Hitler's brain.


13 posted on 06/29/2005 3:35:40 AM PDT by rabidralph
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"Resident Evil" ping


14 posted on 06/29/2005 3:43:19 AM PDT by agere_contra
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Does the process work on pigs?


15 posted on 06/29/2005 3:45:21 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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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!)

= )


16 posted on 06/29/2005 3:57:20 AM PDT by Mr. Thorne ("But iron, cold iron, shall be master of them all..." Kipling)
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Does the process work on pigs?

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:

17 posted on 06/29/2005 4:03:49 AM PDT by LibertarianInExile ("Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist." -- John Adams. "F that." -- SCOTUS, in Kelo.)
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To: Mr. Thorne

Certainly, not I.


18 posted on 06/29/2005 4:09:38 AM PDT by rabidralph
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Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

Volunteers are being signed up at the campus medical facility.

19 posted on 06/29/2005 4:45:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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I'm sure glad THAT picture didn't appear on my monitor, as I've not had breakfast yet!


20 posted on 06/29/2005 4:48:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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