In new health news, gunshot and stabbing victims will be suspended between life and death in order to allow more time to save them. Suspended animation trials will be happening in Pittsburgh soon!

Doctors will cool the body down to a point that cells will not need the amount of oxygen needed at normal temperatures.

"We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction," says Samuel Tisherman, a surgeon at the hospital, who is leading the trial. "So we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation."

The technique involves replacing all of a patient's blood with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity. "If a patient comes to us two hours after dying you can't bring them back to life. But if they're dying and you suspend them, you have a chance to bring them back after their structural problems have been fixed," says surgeon Peter Rhee at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who helped develop the technique.

 

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