the united states has begun to test methods of treatment, where patients undergo temporary functions of the body suspension. The patient is the treatment time in technical terms, dead.

the Method to be tested (switch to another service) in the united states the university of maryland and on the matter told New Scientist -science magazine (you move to another service). University medical school professor Samuel Tisherman report from the New York academy of science symposium on Monday.

a method of Treatment, where the patient’s vital functions is interrupted and later restored is called EPR (Emergency preservation and resuscitation council).

It is intended for very serious injuries for persons whose heart has already stopped beating, because they have lost more than half of the blood. Patients are minutes away from death.

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the EPR method, the purpose is to acquire more time to patient care for.

at the beginning the Treatment the patient’s body is cooled to about ten degrees. This occurs by pumping the blood vessels full of cold saline.

If the human body is normal in the 37-degree temperature of its brain needs oxygen constantly. Five minutes of lack of oxygen starts to cause irreversible brain damage. Fast cooling slow down the damage significantly.

the Professor Tisherman told the symposium that his research team has previously tested the method in pigs. According to the results of swine brain began to get damaged only after a three-hour “fake death” after. People time is limited to two hours, Tisherman says.

When the treatment measures is made, the patient’s own blood is returned to the vein, and he revived. This is a critical moment, since cell damage may be warming during.

No information on the results of

Research is still in its infancy, so the professor Tisherman was achieved so far very quiet.

She told the symposium that the team has made EPR-operation “at least one” patient. Tisherman did not disclose to patients the actual amount, nor method of success.

the aim of the Study has been to use the method of ten serious injuries to the patient who received that be in Baltimore at the hospital. Comparing the results of ten of the corresponding the patient, whose injuries would have agreed to EPR-treatment experiment, but which arrived at the scene, the EPR-care team was not available.

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Tisherman intends to prepare a survey of the results of scientific reports during the next year.

the university of maryland has received a method of testing authorized by the Us health authorities. It made an exception for patient consent in the rule, because such patients are likely to die without treatment, and alternative treatment available.

Local residents have been informed that the hospital tried a new treatment.

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Tisherman told me that he got the inspiration to try the unfortunate incident that occurred in his early career. He tried to care for the young man who had received a stab to the heart. The man had gotten into a dispute, which had begun keilakengistä.

He was a few minutes earlier been a healthy young man, but then he was just dead. We could have saved him if we had only been enough time, Tisherman says.

This got Tishermanin to consider ways on how to a sudden trauma treatments should get more time. Body cooling emerged as a viable alternative.

New Scientistin the interview, he describes that the first test of a “fake death” to achieve were “quite surreal”.

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