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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Humans will be kept between life and death in the first suspended animation trials

Humans will be kept between life and death in the first suspended animation trials
At a hospital in Pittsburgh, surgeons are now allowed to place patients into a state of suspended animation. If a patient arrives with a traumatic injury, and attempts to restart their heart have failed — if they’re on the doorstep of death — they will have their blood replaced with a cold saline solution, which stops almost all cellular activity.

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