http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140704...ck-to-life

Quote:A radical procedure that involves replacing a patient's blood with cold salt water could retrieve people from the brink of death, says David Robson.

“When you are at 10C, with no brain activity, no heartbeat, no blood – everyone would agree that you’re dead,” says Peter Rhee at the University of Arizona, Tucson. “But we can still bring you back.”

Rhee isn’t exaggerating. With Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland, College Park, he has shown that it’s possible to keep bodies in ‘suspended animation’ for hours at a time. The procedure, so far tested on animals, is about as radical as any medical procedure comes: it involves draining the body of its blood and cooling it more than 20C below normal body temperature.

Once the injury is fixed, blood is pumped once again through the veins, and the body is slowly warmed back up. “As the blood is pumped in, the body turns pink right away,” says Rhee. At a certain temperature, the heart flickers into life of its own accord. “It’s quite curious, at 30C the heart will beat once, as if out of nowhere, then again – then as it gets even warmer it picks up all by itself.” Astonishingly, the animals in their experiments show very few ill-effects once they’ve woken up. “They’d be groggy for a little bit but back to normal the day after,” says Tisherman.

Astounding.

Wow's right.

Maybe Ted Williams was right afterall

Sounds scary but promising.

I wonder what the long-term effects of something like that are, but then I guess if you're bad enough off to need it, you're probably not in a position to *****.

Liberals trying to cheat death now.

I guess it's not that surprising to me... it seems like induced hypothermia, but 10 degrees celsuis is about 50 degrees fahrenheit (noting that's body temperature and hypothermia probably happens at low ambient temperature, but the body termperature doesn't get as low as 50F). The difference is when you fall in a frozen lake, no-one replaces your blood with saline.

So, I'm not shocked, but it seems pretty cool.

Talk about having ice water in your veins.....

(07-14-2014 08:47 AM)bevotex Wrote:  Maybe Ted Williams was right afterall

unfortunately, they cut off his head.......

(07-14-2014 02:54 PM)I45owl Wrote:  I guess it's not that surprising to me... it seems like induced hypothermia, but 10 degrees celsuis is about 50 degrees fahrenheit (noting that's body temperature and hypothermia probably happens at low ambient temperature, but the body termperature doesn't get as low as 50F). The difference is when you fall in a frozen lake, no-one replaces your blood with saline.

So, I'm not shocked, but it seems pretty cool.

More than pretty cool. Downright cold.