Surgeons may put patients in suspended animation

[Celebration]

http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=88412006

PATIENTS could soon be put into a state of suspended animation while doctors drain their blood to carry out life-saving emergency surgery.

Once repairs are complete the patients' blood would be warmed up and pumped back into their bodies, bringing them "back to life".

The experiment has already been successful in pigs and it is hoped human trials will start soon, according to a report in New Scientist magazine.

Dr Hasan Alam, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, says his method will allow doctors to keep patients hovering in this twilight zone between life and death for hours before being revived

[Orrex]

1. Sounds like another AMA plot to fill us with fluoride and mercury (nt)

[sasha031]

2. sounds like the movie Coma

[hwmnbn]

4. Sounds like some nights .........

from my youth :toast: :toast:


especially the part about:

hovering in this twilight zone between life and death for hours before being revived

[MindPilot]

3. Can I be put into a coma?

And not awakened until President Gore's second term?