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Quite an interesting 'experiment' will start to take place this week for people with a 7% or less chance of surviving their knife wound or gunshot injuries...
more here..... http://www.newscientist.com/article...ween-life-and-death.html?full=true#bx296230B1
Doctors will try to save the lives of 10 patients with knife or gunshot wounds by placing them in suspended animation, buying time to fix their injuries
NEITHER dead or alive, knife-wound or gunshot victims will be cooled down and placed in suspended animation later this month, as a groundbreaking emergency technique is tested out for the first time.
Surgeons are now on call at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to perform the operation, which will buy doctors time to fix injuries that would otherwise be lethal.
"We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction," says Samuel Tisherman, a surgeon at the hospital, who is leading the trial. "So we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation."
more here..... http://www.newscientist.com/article...ween-life-and-death.html?full=true#bx296230B1