Bringing people back from the dead

Re:Bringing people back from the dead by Houshalter on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @12:17AM (#5599777)

The point is that it is possible, not common. Which is incredible that the brain can go so long without oxygen and then fully recover, and that we may someday have the technology to revive people better or more often.

Think if you somehow had a machine that could revive and keep someone's brain alive regardless of how injured the rest of their body was. And if you had a whole hour or more to get to them. Not that it's likely to come around anytime soon, but still.

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Re:Bringing people back from the dead by hiddenfeatures on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @12:18AM (#5599787)

Yeah. It is basically a "think big"-story

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Re:Bringing people back from the dead by XorNot on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @10:44AM (#5601715)

For that we really need a mass-producible synthetic blood substitute. The holy grail is if someone suffers major damage, we put them on a continuous supply of the stuff until we can sew up all the holes, and then we get to work growing them some replacement clone organs in a lab with 3D printers.

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Re:Bringing people back from the dead by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @11:32AM (#5602017)

Step 1: Determine the physiological process that causes the brain to go into a safing mode during severe/near death trauma.

Step 2: Figure out how to duplicate it with either environmental (temperature) or chemical (compound) factors.

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