Reversing Death: New Medical Procedures On the Way

chemgator · Dec 18, 2022

This blows my mind--death may be reversible up to a hour or longer after the heart and brain functions stop. Some accidental experimentation with brain tissue led to new discoveries in restoring life to a dead body.

Some background: ventilators were invented in the 1950's, allowing a body to be kept alive by delivering oxygen to the brain and other organs. In the late 60's, doctors settled on the idea of brain-death: when the brain stops working, the patient is dead. A 13-year-old girl died during surgery in 2013, but was kept alive by ventilator for five years. She went through puberty with no brain function to initiate or direct the changes.

Scientists have developed an advanced life support system called OrganEx that does a much better job of not only keeping patients "alive", but also restores them to full health from a state of clinical death, without requiring the heart to be re-started (it re-starts on its own). When the heart stops, not all of the cells die or stop functioning immediately. This system has been tested on pigs already, but not people. Four out of five pig hearts re-started on their own during the procedure.

Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die

The first step was re-activating pig brains retrieved from a slaughterhouse.

Using assorted pumps, heaters, and filters to circulate a custom-made blood substitute, Sestan and his coworkers cobbled together a now-patented perfusion system, which they called BrainEx. They achieved stunning results. In a 2019 paper, the team described how BrainEx revitalized key features of pig brains retrieved from a slaughterhouse. Four hours after the pigs had died, neurons were firing, blood vessels were functioning, and the brain’s immune cells were chugging along.

After the BrainEx paper came out, scientists and physicians inundated Sestan with ideas about what to do next. “Nenad was like, ‘Well, we should try definitely to answer as many questions [as we can] at once by trying to do this on the entire body,’” says David Andrijevic, MD, a research scientist who joined the lab at Yale shortly before Sestan published the BrainEx study.
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The next step was to revive the entire pig, after it was dead for an hour.

When it came time to test OrganEx on pigs, Sestan and his team at Yale anticipated a long day. It took about five hours to prepare solutions and ready the machines and another seven hours to conduct monitoring and measurements on 10 pigs. They worked on one animal at a time, each sedated and kept fully anesthetized. The scientists put a tiny electrode through a square-inch hole in each animal’s chest and touched its heart to induce cardiac arrest. Two monitors, one for the heart and one for brain activity, showed flat lines. The pigs were dead.

One hour passed. Then the real test began, as the scientists connected each motionless animal to the OrganEx system or, as a control, to a standard ECMO. The experiment was set to run for the next six hours, but the first and most obvious changes happened about a half hour in: Heart monitors connected to four out of five OrganEx-treated pigs began to light up. Peaked lines started moving in pulses across the screen. “It was like, whoa, whoa, what should we do now?” says Andrijevic. The hearts’ electrical activity had resumed spontaneously, without chest compressions or other obvious lifesaving measures.
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l_boy · Dec 18, 2022

That’s wild. Seems groundbreaking.

BLING · Dec 18, 2022

Emmitto · Dec 18, 2022

Look dudes and dudettes, if I and my worldwide cabal finally succeed in making you all dead and such, take the hint, OK?

G8tas · Dec 18, 2022

That's pretty cool

Gator515151 · Dec 18, 2022

chemgator said: ↑

The first step was re-activating pig brains.
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So there is hope for Biden after all.

duggers_dad · Dec 19, 2022

That represents and advance, in healthcare, given that ventilators were killing multitudes in 2020.

ursidman · Dec 19, 2022

Years ago I saw a Weekly World News headline: “New Hope For The Dead” that made me laugh and laugh. Well who’s laughing now?

homer · Dec 19, 2022

chemgator said: ↑

This blows my mind--death may be reversible up to a hour or longer after the heart and brain functions stop. Some accidental experimentation with brain tissue led to new discoveries in restoring life to a dead body.

Some background: ventilators were invented in the 1950's, allowing a body to be kept alive by delivering oxygen to the brain and other organs. In the late 60's, doctors settled on the idea of brain-death: when the brain stops working, the patient is dead. A 13-year-old girl died during surgery in 2013, but was kept alive by ventilator for five years. She went through puberty with no brain function to initiate or direct the changes.

Scientists have developed an advanced life support system called OrganEx that does a much better job of not only keeping patients "alive", but also restores them to full health from a state of clinical death, without requiring the heart to be re-started (it re-starts on its own). When the heart stops, not all of the cells die or stop functioning immediately. This system has been tested on pigs already, but not people. Four out of five pig hearts re-started on their own during the procedure.

Is Death Real? New Experiments Raise Important Questions On What It Means To Die

The first step was re-activating pig brains retrieved from a slaughterhouse.

The next step was to revive the entire pig, after it was dead for an hour.
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It’s alive, It’s alive,,,,,,,

Dr. Frankenstein

VAg8r1 · Dec 19, 2022

Gator515151 said: ↑

So there is hope for Biden after all.
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Just a reminder that "brain dead" Biden managed to beat the delusional Orange God in a free and fair election by a margin of close to 8 million votes.

homer · Dec 19, 2022

VAg8r1 said: ↑

Just a reminder that "brain dead" Biden managed to beat the delusional Orange God in a free and fair election by a margin of close to 8 million votes.
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My how far we’ve sunk. Sigh

Trickster · Dec 19, 2022

homer said: ↑

My how far we’ve sunk. Sigh
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No president has ever sunk further than Trump. Biden has brought respect back to the office. Feel free to disagree with his policies, but don’t impugn his character and allegiance to the Constitution.

homer · Dec 19, 2022

Trickster said: ↑

No president has ever sunk further than Trump. Biden has brought respect back to the office. Feel free to disagree with his policies, but don’t impugn his character and allegiance to the Constitution.
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I didn’t say who was worse.

I’ll say it again but louder,,,,

OH HOW FAR WE’VE SUNK. Sigh

G8trGr8t · Dec 19, 2022

homer said: ↑

My how far we’ve sunk. Sigh
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actually it is a significant step up from electing the delusional conman child that was chosen before Biden, the orange guy has the intellect and maturity fo a 12 year old. How anyone of any intelligence can continue to try and defend him is incomprehensible

Trickster · Dec 19, 2022

homer said: ↑

I didn’t say who was worse.

I’ll say it again but louder,,,,

OH HOW FAR WE’VE SUNK. Sigh
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Thanks to Trump is my point. What he’s done and is doing to this country has been outrageous. Don’t even mention Biden in the same breath.

G8trGr8t · Dec 19, 2022

read about this yesterday. weird science indeed, especially the post death brain activity

enviroGator · Dec 19, 2022

Gator515151 said: ↑

So there is hope for Biden after all.
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Yeah but not Trump... he hasn't used his brain for way too long.

tilly · Dec 19, 2022

leave it to Too Hot to ruin such an exciting story.

GCNumber7 · Dec 19, 2022

Some of you just can’t help yourselves.

lacuna · Dec 20, 2022

Will @RIP be able to transition to a new line of employment?

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