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| Subject: Cool: "Suspending Life" to be Tested on Victims of Fatal Wounds Wed May 28, 2014 12:03 am | |
| Scientists are going to try to suspend 10 victims of fatal wounds in a state between living and dying for a few hours in the hopes that buying time can help save lives.
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh will be involved in the first historic human trials that may bring us one step closer to science fiction's "suspended animation."
The trial will reportedly involve specially trained hospital surgeons attempting to suspend the life of patients, who have been inflicted with fatal knife or gunshot wounds, for up to four hours. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is allowing these trials with an exception from informed consent - but only in emergency cases that cannot be addressed in another manner and would otherwise result in death.
More: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/7257/20140527/suspending-life-tested-victims-fatal-wounds.htm |
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