I remember reading about this research in pigs many years ago and over the years I kept wondering "what's going on with this?"
If they can make this work only in a statistical sense, reviving more people than would have died otherwise, it'll lead to even more research. My firm belief is that this is one of those things that the more we do, the more we'll be able to do. It wouldn't surprise me to see people being "dead" for 4-16 hours then brought back to life -- assuming a decade or two of research.
At that point, all kinds of weird things become possible, like head transplants, or people who have lost their body from the navel down being saved.
If they can make this work only in a statistical sense, reviving more people than would have died otherwise, it'll lead to even more research. My firm belief is that this is one of those things that the more we do, the more we'll be able to do. It wouldn't surprise me to see people being "dead" for 4-16 hours then brought back to life -- assuming a decade or two of research.
At that point, all kinds of weird things become possible, like head transplants, or people who have lost their body from the navel down being saved.
Very cool stuff.