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    September 30, 2007

    Bringing the dead back to life with a dash of suspended animation

    A new medical treatment "brings patients back from the dead."  It sounds a lot like science fiction's beloved suspended animation.  When a person is stricken by heart attack or other killing injury, a saline mix is injected into their body, Next,

    [c]ooling pads are then wrapped around a patient. The body temperature is normally 98 degrees, but cooling brings it down to 92 degrees. Doctors keep it there for about 24 hours. This process is called intentional hypothermia.

    (thanks, Lambert Heller!)

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