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Monday, May 26, 2014

Left between life and death: First 'suspended animation' trials set to begin in bid to buy time for stabbing and gunshot victims

Left between life and death: First 'suspended animation' trials set to begin in bid to buy time for stabbing and gunshot victims | Mail Online: "It sounds like something out of Star Wars - doctors are attempting to save the lives of ten patients by putting them in ‘suspended animation’, when they are neither alive or dead.

Han Solo from Star Wars was frozen in suspended animation for transport, but now scientists hope to perform surgery by 'freezing' patients

Surgeons at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh will cool down the patients so their blood cells need less oxygen to survive."

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