Reanimate the Dead to Life by Practicing Cryo Techniques

Therapeutic Hypothermia has been evolving as a science in itself since a very long time. There have been many accidents chronicled wherein people were buried alive in snow or under ice in frigid waters, left scientifically dead without any signs of heartbeat and breathing, only to be revived many hours later. The most notable case being that of Anna Bagenholm from Sweden, doctors in Siberia have been placing babies in snowbanks since the 1960’s before surgery to increase their chances of survival. Stowaways have been known to survive in the wheel well of an aircraft jetliner at 38,000 feet altitude with negligible oxygen and -50 degree temperatures. Inspiration is also drawn from hibernation ability of the hibernating animals like the artic ground squirrel, wood frog, nematodes, polar bears etc. in harsh winter conditions. But it has been felt that the real benefits of medical hypothermia have not been exploited so far for the progress of mankind. By means of this research, we have now discovered how cooling can assist in bringing back the dead to life.

Pigs were bled to death with a major trauma to their vital common jugular vein and carotid artery to mimic an accident/trauma injury. The pig had by now lost its heartbeat, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, etc. and all other vital signs of life, leaving it clinically dead. Its chest cavity was opened via a thoracotomy. A cannula or long specialised Cather was inserted into the aorta. Dead bodies of these pigs were immediately cooled by sucking out their entire blood through the aorta and replacing it with an ice cold saline solution (at 5 degrees Celsius) suspended with PFC’s-Perfluorocarbon aggressively pumped into the aorta. PFC’s are efficient artificial oxygen carriers. All this drained blood of the pig was carefully collected in a vat for re-transfusion in future. This cold oxygenated solution was continuously circulated through the blood vessels of the dead pig bringing its core body temperature to about 10 degrees Celsius rapidly within 10 minutes. An ECMO machine was connected with a chiller and heater alternatively, used continuously for all circulatory purposes of both the warm blood and ice cold solution throughout the pig’s body. External cooling packs and ice pads were also applied on the entire body of the pig to cool down its dead body as soon as possible. A surgery was performed on the dead body to restore the tear (sew up the vein which had been severed). The pig was slowly thawed in a warm water bath at about 0.5 degree Celsius per hour to the normal body temperature of 38 degrees of the pig. The ice cold saline was then replaced with the warm original blood of the pig when the temperature reached 30 degrees. After about reaching to 32 degrees some of the pig’s heart started beating automatically while the others had to be given a jumpstart using external electric shocks called defibrillation or Electrical Cardioversion. The pigs were immediately connected to a ventilator device for assisted respiration. After about a day or so these pigs returned to normalcy with regards to heart and breathing rhythms. By following the above procedure dead humans may also be brought back to life immediately after demise. This procedure will be more effective in dead youths who unfortunately got killed. Pigs were used for this experiment as they share a number of surprising comparable traits with humans which is a well-known fact

Author(s): Ashutosh Menon

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