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US scientists at the Papa Doc Duvalier Center for Reanimation Studies* are celebrating ground-breaking research during which they successfully raised dogs from the grave after several hours of "clinical death".

According to news.com.au, the technique involves draining the mutts' blood and replacing it with a saline solution a couple of degrees above zero. The body temperature drops to around 7°C, provoking a cessation of breathing, heart and brain activity and rendering the subject officially dead.

To reanimate the zombie canine, the latter-day Herbert Wests reintroduce the blood while administering 100 per cent oxygen and electric shocks to jump-start the heart. The dog is apparently none the worse for its near-permanent-death experience and reportedly suffers no physical or brain damage as a result of this macabre experiment. We assume that post-resurrection mental capacity is judged by throwing a stick across the lab and seeing if the four-legged member of the Tontons Macoutes runs after it with tail-wagging enthusiasm.

Naturally, there is some perfectly legitimate science behind all this. The team reckons the technique could be used to temporarily suspend battlefield casualties, during which surgeons could repair the damage before jump-starting the bewildered grunt. One unnamed army doc enthused: "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."

The scientists plan to reanimate a human subject within a year. Any reader wishing to participate in this historic moment is advised to wrap up warm and fully acquaint him or herself with the works of HP Lovecraft. ®



Blood Swapping Reanimates Dead Dogs

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

By Bill Hoffmann




In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs ? then brought them back to life.

The hapless pooches, who have their blood drained for up to three hours, are being reanimated in a bid to develop the use of suspended animation to help humans who are injured in combat or crime.

"From our standpoint, we believe it's a very important area of research," said Dr. Patrick Kochanek (Read his biography) , director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research (search) at the University of Pittsburgh.

But animal-rights activists last night slammed the research as "indefensible," cruel and inhumane.

In the unsettling tests, dogs of all breeds and sizes are put under, their veins drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution which drops their body temperature from a normal 101 degrees to near freezing.

That puts them in a state of extreme hypothermia, making them scientifically dead ? with no breathing, heartbeat or brain activity. But their tissues and vital organs are preserved.

The corpses are then brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies, giving them pure oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

For a long time, the test subjects couldn't be brought back to life after more than two hours. But recently, the researchers added glucose and more oxygen to the blood and have pushed the maximum time the dogs can be dead to three hours.

"We've tried to get it to four hours, but we just haven't been able to do it," Kochanek told The Post.

The lucky ones turn out to be perfectly normal with no brain damage ? although other dogs are stricken with serious physical or behavioral problems.

"We do not in any way say that every outcome is normal," Kochanek said.

He said his goal is to be able to put humans, such as critically wounded soldiers or stabbing or shooting victims, in a state of suspended animation for a few hours until they can receive proper medical help.

And his team is now in talks with hospitals about starting trials for trauma patients.



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The science of zombie dogs
July 6, 2005 5:05 PM PDT

U.S. scientists have apparently discovered a way to reanimate dogs that have been clinically dead for three hours, a process intended for future human trials.

A new scientific approach tested at the Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research, based in Pittsburgh, drains some of the animal's blood and replaces it with an ice-cold salt solution. The dog--considered technically dead without a heartbeat or brain waves--is then revived with a blood transfusion and electric shock up to three hours later. The process, called "suspended animation with delayed resuscitation," is ultimately designed to help suspend and revive emergency victims, such as casualties of war or car accidents, who have experienced an otherwise lethal hemorrhage.

But the animal rights community must have had a hemorrhage over the Safar Centre's tests. Last week, it issued a statement clarifying its research tactics and outlining its compliance with standards for the ethical treatment of animals.

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By Jennifer Bails
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Horror buffs rolled out the red carpet for the Pittsburgh opening of "Land of the Dead," the latest in hometown filmmaker George Romero's series of zombie movies.

As fans of gore sporting ghoulish attire lined Downtown sidewalks before the premiere, trauma surgeons from across the country began to gather at the University of Pittsburgh for the third annual Safar Symposium, where they learned that raising people from the dead might not be a celluloid fantasy.

Scientists at Pitt's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in Oakland announced at the meeting last week that they have found a way to revive dogs three hours after clinical death -- an hour longer than in previous experiments, said the center's director, Dr. Patrick Kochanek.

Clinical death occurs when the heart stops pumping, breathing stops and brain activity ends.

These data aren't published yet, but the center hopes to begin human clinical trials within a year on a protocol they hope could revolutionize trauma care by saving people in cardiac arrest because of massive blood loss.

"This is a very exciting finding because of its potential implications for resuscitating what would otherwise be fatally wounded people," Kochanek said.

It also quickly became the stuff of urban legend.

The British tabloid press caught wind of this work and a series of hair-raising stories began to circulate on the Internet last weekend referring to "zombie dogs," complete with inflammatory werewolf photos. The stories have made their way through cyberspace to media outlets as far away as Australia.

"It's so unfair and so bizarre," Kochanek said. "Somebody must have thought the title 'zombie dog' would be a catchy phrase. Obviously they were right, but obviously that is the farthest thing from what we are doing, which is trying to save lives."

Soldiers in combat and gunshot or stabbing victims often bleed to death because medics don't have enough time to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or deliver blood. This type of injury kills about 50,000 Americans every year and is the leading cause of death among troops killed in action, said nationally recognized trauma surgeon Dr. Howard Champion, who lives in Annapolis, Md.

In the 1980s, Dr. Peter Safar -- inventor of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and founder of the center that bears his name -- collaborated with Army officials to develop a novel "big chill" concept for bringing people back to life after their hearts stop beating because of massive blood loss.

Safar, who died two years ago, proposed flushing the circulatory system with an ice-cold salt solution, which would drop the core body temperature to about 50 degrees compared to the usual 98.6 degrees.

Cooling the body in this way would buy extra time to transport injured soldiers or trauma victims in cardiac arrest to the hospital, Safar reasoned. The cold temperature would have a preserving effect so no damage would occur to tissues and organs, even though the heart would be stopped.

"The idea is to preserve the victim for just a little while in this state called suspended animation so the surgeons can locate bleeding sites and make the necessary repairs," Kochanek said.

Patients could then be revived by slowly pumping warm blood back into their bodies and administering a brief electric shock to their hearts.

"When you think in terms of huge advances in the care of the badly injured person, this has the potential to be, if not the greatest advance, one of the greatest advances of all time," said Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician-in-chief at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

"As potentially crazy as this might sound, you're comparing it against essentially certain death, so it's hard to see how we can do any worse," said Scalea, who attended the symposium at Pitt. "All of us are incredibly energized by the thought of being able to do better."

How long can you turn off the body's machinery and still allow for normal recovery?

Past animal experiments paid for by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and conducted by Kochanek and his colleague Dr. Samuel Tisherman, the Safar center's associate director, found that two hours was the limit.

At the symposium, however, the Pitt doctors announced they could extend that to three hours by adding tiny amounts of glucose and dissolved oxygen to the cold saline solution. The mixture acted to preserve energy levels, which kept the body in suspended animation without brain injury for an hour longer in two-thirds of the 24 dogs tested, Kochanek said.

"We weren't terribly optimistic this would work, but lo and behold, it was effective," Kochanek said about the experiments, which began six months ago.

Preliminary discussions began at the symposium about the logistics of taking the next step -- testing suspended animation in people.

"We need to transport this to the human environment and see if we can develop a study that proves this can save lives," Champion said.

Kochanek and his colleagues still have to answer a lot of questions, but they are confident they will succeed.

"I bet people said Peter Safar was silly when he invented closed-chest CPR," Scalea sad "Anybody that's silly enough to bet against Peter Safar is a very foolish individual. If he says it will work, it will work. Now it's just a matter of making it happen."



3. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-re...s/s_348517.html

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CRAZY SHIT, i guess this is why resident evil was made was to train us to know to go for the head so they can make money by the game then inturn making money by supplying the guns and ammo...

strang this pops up around easter, the time wher your lord is supposed to rise from the dead.... with a thirst for blood and distruction


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