Reviving Pig Brains After an Hour of Death? This Could Be The World’s First

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When the blood stops circulating to the brain you have mere moments to revive someone, lest the damage to their central nervous system’s epicenter be irreparable. However, scientists in China have recently resuscitated the brain of pigs after nearly an hour of death and were even able to restore brain function.

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00:00when the blood stops circulating to the brain you have mere moments to revive someone less

00:08the damage to their central nervous system's epicenter be irreparable however scientists

00:13in china have recently resuscitated the brains of pigs after nearly an hour of death restoring

00:18brain function when the heart stops beating and blood ceases to circulate to organs that is called

00:23ischemia experts have long believed that this plays a key role in death especially with regards

00:28to ischemia in certain organs so researchers sought to figure out if preventing liver ischemia might aid

00:33in resuscitating euthanized animals and it did looking at the pigs post-mortem the group that

00:38had liver ischemia prevented had the least brain damage what's more subsequent resuscitation which

00:43incorporated the liver into an artificial life support system were actually better at reviving

00:48the pigs what's more their brains were also reactivated with the researchers detecting electrical

00:53activity though none of the subjects survived for very long after if these results are transitive

00:58to human patients this could be a massive jump forward in medicine aiding doctors in widening

01:02the narrow window in which they have to resuscitate patients who have experienced sudden cardiac arrest

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