This one is an oldie but a goodie… in June 2005, news started circulating that scientists at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research in Pittsburgh had made a breakthrough that allowed them to bring dogs back to life three hours after clinical death.

They do this by draining the dog’s blood and replacing it with a chilled saline solution, lowering the body’s core temperature to 50 degrees. By doing this they could revive a dog two hours after it died. Dr. Patrick Kochanek improved the process by adding small amounts of glucose and oxygen to the solution, which allowed dogs to be revived three hours after they died.

The goal of this process is to use it to preserve soldiers who have been injured but cannot be immediately treated. The process could add several hours time before an otherwise fatally wounded soldier would die of their injuries, allowing them to be treated. It is not actually intended to raise the dead or even revive dogs which did not die because their blood was drained and replaced with a freezing saline solution.

According to reports, they were hoping to go to human trials within a year. I wonder what happened?

Via Mindfully.org

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