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A patient is delivered by helicopter to Berlin s Accident Hospital More seriously wounded patients might survive if they were put into a state of suspended animation before they got transported Medicine Round Trip Journeys to the Afterworld By Jörg Blech Researchers allow pigs and dogs to bleed to death fill their bodies with cold saline solution and then bring the dead animals back to life a few hours later The ability to switch living beings off and then on again could revolutionize medicine especially treatment of bleeding victims or heart attack patients First the heart begins to beat and then the pig starts breathing Finally it stands up and looks curiously at the man in the lab coat standing outside its cage quot This animal was dead for several hours quot says Hasan Alam 39 a surgeon at Boston s Massachusetts General Hospital quot But we brought it back And now it s here again quot The same magic forces seem to be at work in the animal research facility of the General Hospital of the City of Vienna Pigs are suddenly opening their eyes after their hearts were stopped with electric shocks and they lay dead for half an hour quot The miracle quot says Wilhelm Behringer 39 a physician specializing in emergency medicine quot is that the animals return to life without neurological damage quot In the last few years the two research groups have sent a hundred pigs on round trip journeys into the afterworld using variations on the same trick in each case The physicians flood the animals bodies with several liters of a saline solution that s been cooled to about two degrees C 36° F This puts the animals into a mysterious state of suspended animation that prevents the cells of their lifeless bodies from dying off None of the animals feel pain because the experiments are done under full anesthesia Until now we ve left it to science fiction writers to describe what it might be like to take a break from life and then return at some point in the future Only in science
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in Vascular Disease or Vein problems The UVa Vascular Program brings together widely recognized experts in vascular surgery vascular and interventional radiology interventional cardiology and cardiovascular medicine to address a full range of vascular diseases Endovascular as well as conventional open operative repairs are performed Care coordination in both
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Conventional medicine is largely confined to treating the symptoms of this disease Calcium antagonists beta blockers nitrates
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we have the opportunity to add many quality years to our lives and free ourselves from the fear of these potentially deadly diseases Conventional Care The majority of elderly Americans develop high blood pressure The years of dietary abuse eventually takes its toll Before long doctors will inform you that you have high blood
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