[News] Scientists Revive Dead Dogs - YorkieTalk.com Forums

fasteddie · 06-27-2005, 05:51 PM

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 this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

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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.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-13762,00.html

MeganS · 06-27-2005, 05:55 PM

wow thats pretty amazing i don't think i would want it done though. the turth is it will just bring more pain and it isn't your dog your furbaby and your pal. its kind of like when they get cloned. and that pic. down there scares me lol.

lycansmom · 06-27-2005, 06:35 PM

wow we humans play god more and more each day.

Julie1 · 06-28-2005, 01:47 AM

Those poor dogs

iheartyorkies · 06-28-2005, 04:28 AM

I dunno, sounds kinda Frankinstein-ish...and I guess that in order to do the procedure that had to kill the dogs first. Creepy.

wollfy · 06-28-2005, 06:50 AM

Wow thats very eerie...

rrosenberry · 06-28-2005, 06:54 AM

What will it be next??!!
Imagine someone dies,,, a few years later,,you pass them on the street, they have been brought back... thats too strange.

Tuck'smom · 06-28-2005, 08:36 AM

It really is creepy and I hate that they're using dogs for the research - why not death row inmates or someone deserving of the torture? But then, I stop and think, what if my baby Tuck was hit by a car and by putting him in suspended animation they could fix him up to be alright again? But then again, I remember what happened in Stephen King's Pet Semetary ... I guess I have mixed feelings on this one.
Dana

BabyGirlNC690 · 06-28-2005, 11:49 AM

OK, maybe I'm a little slow here, but could someone explain this to me?

i_love_my_yorki · 06-28-2005, 12:22 PM

Scientists playing "GOD"

chewysmom · 06-28-2005, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lycansmom

wow we humans play god more and more each day.

My thought exatly.

babi1542 · 06-28-2005, 04:16 PM

What will they think up next!

Joy · 06-29-2005, 05:58 AM

Im just not impressed at all by this new science.. Good Grief.. I personally think it is just Sick!!
Poor Dogs.. I cant believe people do this stuff for a living..

DiOrGiRLy · 06-29-2005, 10:06 AM

This is crazy and hard to believe.

Marie · 06-29-2005, 10:22 AM

Wow, this is just unbelievable and crazy. I agreed we are playing God here.

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06-28-2005, 08:36 AM	#8
Tuck'smom Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: DeBary, FL Posts: 140	It really is creepy and I hate that they're using dogs for the research - why not death row inmates or someone deserving of the torture? But then, I stop and think, what if my baby Tuck was hit by a car and by putting him in suspended animation they could fix him up to be alright again? But then again, I remember what happened in Stephen King's Pet Semetary ... I guess I have mixed feelings on this one. Dana

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i_love_my_yorki YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 696	Scientists playing "GOD"

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Joy BANNED! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Maine Posts: 2,094	Im just not impressed at all by this new science.. Good Grief.. I personally think it is just Sick!! Poor Dogs.. I cant believe people do this stuff for a living..

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