Scientists have revived activity in the brains of pigs up to nearly an hour after circulation had ceased. In some cases, functionality was sustained for hours through a surprising discovery by researchers in China.
This achievement represents a huge step forward in working out how to restore brain function after a patient has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. It suggests that doctors may be able to widen the brief window for successful resuscitation of patients following cardiac arrest.
The trick? Incorporating the patient’s unharmed liver – the organ the body uses to purify its blood – into the life support system used to revive the brain after the time had elapsed.
Source:
Liver protects neuron viability and electrocortical activity in post-cardiac arrest brain injury
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-024-00140-z
New fear unlocked.
Pigs’s Jesus is not going to be happy about this.
China
Calling bullshit.
Something groundbreaking like this is going to get a lot of attention and reproduction. Not something you’d want to fake.
Y’all got any of that zombie bacon?
Oh thank goodness, we’re on track for a zombie apocalypse.
Dr. Frankenstein, I presume?
