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Re:Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death by csdigi on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:00PM (#7478099)
Mark Roth did an interesting TED talk 4 years ago on that very subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVAaZVz9pDs

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Re:Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death by ekianjo on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:09PM (#7478132)
Yeah, and still no progress in 4 years in clinical practice. That's... depressing :(
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Re:Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death by ed on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:36AM (#7478945) 

    Experiments on sedated sheep and partially ventilated
    anesthetized pigs have been unsuccessful, suggesting
    that application to large mammals may not be feasible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation#Chemically-...
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Re:Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death by danieltillett on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:01PM (#7478312)
Yes the (d)ethicists have so jammed up the drug development process with impossible safety thresholds that basically nothing new can now be tested in humans.
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