Zombie Dogs Experiments

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I don't know whether to be creeped out or interested, lol.

Zombie Dogs Experiments

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.

related: Previous Mice Experiment 

http://www.thegiftoflife.org/pdf/050513.pdf

[JBE 328]

Hmmm, this is interesting. Sounds like the Universal Soldier movies from a few years back. Creepy, in a Night of the Living Dead kind of vein, but still interesting.

[WAS967 97]

A doctor who trained me once said half joking/half serious that in the future we won't work codes, we'll just pack thier heads in ice. This ain't far from that. ;->

[lissa76 0]

8-[ That is just tooooo creepy! I mean, how do you explain that one to the kids?

[JM15 386]

Hes only sleeping little Johnny

[Skooter92 7]

The article gives new meaning to the term "Slush Puppie".

Seriously, do the dogs roam around afterwards, making strange noises and trying to eat people's brains?

Could we try the procedure on a certain human and see if it improves his people skills?