Technique that resurrects dead will be tested in humans

New York, USA. Medical professors of the universities of Arizona and Maryland, in the United States, are causing a stir in the international scientific community with a radical resuscitation technique clinically dead people. After successful tests with animals, they were allowed to test in humans the "suspension" of death.

The procedure developed by Samuel Tisherman, Maryland, is based on the idea that low temperatures keep the body alive longer - about an hour or two. It works like this: the blood is removed and in its place is put a saline solution that helps lower the body temperature to something like 10 to 15 degrees Celsius.
When the problem is solved patient's body, the blood being pumped back, the system slowly reheating. When the blood temperature reaches 30 degrees, the heart begins to beat.
According to the report published by the BBC on experience with pigs, about 90% of recovered when blood is pumped back. Each animal spent more than an hour in "limbo".
"When your body is with 10 degrees of temperature without brain activity, heart rate and blood - is a consensus that you're dead," said Professor Peter Rhee of the University of Arizona, told the BBC. "But still, we can bring you back."
Rhee joined Tisherman to prove that it is possible to keep the body in suspended state for hours. They admit that the procedure is quite radical, but believe that, given the good results with pigs, which have very low side effects or damage to the brains, the technique also has everything to be successful in humans.
The challenge of obtaining permission for testing in humans has been tremendous so far. But finally Tisherman and Rhee received permission to test your technique with gunshot victims in Pittsburgh. They want to use patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who would have more chances to survive, by conventional techniques.
"When people think about it, I think of space travelers being frozen and agreed on Jupiter, or (character) Han Solo in Star Wars. It does not help because it is important that they know that this is not science fiction, "he told BBC.
According to the report, efforts to bring people back from what is believed to be the death have been around for decades. Tisherman began his studies with Peter Safar, who in the 1960s created the pioneering technique of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. With CPR, can keep the artificially active heart for a while.
"We have always been raised to believe that death is an absolute time, and that when we die no return," says Sam Parnia, the State University of New York.
"With the discovery of basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation we come to understand that the body's cells take hours to reach an irreversible death. Even after you've turned into a corpse, still exists as rescue him. "
Chance for injury victims. New York, USA "One of the most amazing things to watch: when the heart starts beating again," says Professor Peter Rhee of the University of Arizona, one of those responsible for the "suspension" of death.
He reported that, after operation animals, various tests were performed to assess whether brain damage there. Apparently no pig malfunctioned.
One of the problems to be overcome is to see how patients adapt to someone else's blood. The pigs were given their own frozen blood, but in the case of humans will need to use the stock of bloodlines bank.