Posted on 08/02/2013 12:18:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Raising the dead may soon become medical reality. According to critical care physician Sam Parnia, modern resuscitation science will soon allow doctors to reanimate people up to 24 hours after their death.
At some point, everyone's heart will stop. For most, this is when they begin to die. Doctors succeed in very few cases at bringing the clinically dead back to life. However, more patients could be saved if medical professionals put existing knowledge about the treatment of cardiac arrest to better use, argues critical care physician Sam Parnia, 41, who is leading a revival of research in this field at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York.
When Parnia was a student some 20 years ago, a patient he knew well died under his care. It was a key moment for the young doctor, who has since sought to understand and fight the process of death.
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SPIEGEL: Dr. Parnia, in your new book on resuscitation science, "Erasing Death," you state: "We may soon be rescuing people from death's clutches hours, or even longer, after they have actually died." That sounds a lot like resurrection. Is this a serious claim?
Parnia: In the past decade we have seen tremendous progress. With today's medicine, we can bring people back to life up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes even longer, after their heart stopped beating and they have thus died by circulatory failure. In the future, we will likely get better at reversing death. We may have injectable drugs that slow the process of cell death in the brain and other organs. It is possible that in 20 years, we may be able to restore people to life 12 hours or maybe even 24 hours after they have died. You could call that resurrection, if you will....
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That’s silly.
Sometimes in very cold places or under cold water as long as 30 minutes , but bringing back the brain dead doesn’t sound too bright to me.
From the article: "We may have injectable drugs that slow the process of cell death in the brain and other organs."
Great Episode!
Obviously the headline was going to say “back from the dead.”
No copywriter can resist that.
The reality is that there is no “back from the dead.” Death is that which is final. If someone is resuscitated, that person was NOT DEAD.
“We may have injectable drugs that slow the process of cell death in the brain and other organs.”
That won’t work when the heart is stopped.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!!!! Hahahahahahahah!
The story doesn’t make sense. If they had such drugs they would have to inject them in the first 4 minutes. If they inject the drugs in the firt 4 minutes why woiuld they wait 24 hrs to save the body.
I guess you could say they were repairing it with operations for 24 hrs. This could work for young accident victims , but for us old codgers why bother.?
If the heart isn’t beating these “cell death preventing” drugs can’t get to the cells. So even if this becomes possible the person would have to be in a hospital or have cpr started quickly.
>>The soul isn’t going to hang around.<<
Isn’t that what Democrats are? Soulless?
>>The soul isn’t going to hang around.<<
Isn’t that what Democrats are? Soulless?
Thanks. I was sleepy/slow last night. :)
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