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Doctors rethink death

PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:54 pm
by UofMLaxGoalie11
Thought this was rather interesting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18368186/si ... k?GT1=9951

But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that "astounding" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead.