Many readers are telling me that Zombie dogs are part of the reality-based community.

From one:

Jonah:
The Safar Centr for Resuscitation Research mentioned in the article is real:
http://www.safar.pitt.edu/index.htm
So is their Hemorrhagic Shock and Suspended Animation Program:
http://www.safar.pitt.edu/content/programs/safar/index_safar.html
“SCRR’s Shock and Suspended Animation Program (SSAP) continued studying
uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UHS) in rats, under US Navy support since
spring of 1996. We honored the first year of our proposal and completed
several other studies. After publication of our sixth dog study on SA
(Capone et al.), Drs. Safar and Tisherman helped the Department of Defense
in attempts to obtain funding for a five-year multicenter study. We
prepared a major grant application for five years’ work with our dog
models, which was submitted in autumn 1996 (Dr. Safar, PI; Dr. Tisherman,
Co-PI). Funding for the first two years, by the US Navy, began in autumn 1997.”
The Zombie Dogs are also alluded to in Dr. Peter Safar’s obituary:
http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20030805safar0805p1.asp
“He began developing that idea almost a decade ago with Dr. Lyn Yaffe, then
in charge of combat casualty care research for the U.S. Navy. The projects
are now sponsored by the U.S. Army. Many years of promising laboratory and
animal experiments at the Safar Center and other research centers have
paved the way for initial human trials of therapeutic hypothermia for
traumatic shock.
Yaffe said those trials could begin in Pittsburgh in the next 18 months.”
So, we learn two things from the above. The Zombie Dogs story may be true
and I have too much time on my hands.
All Praise The Great K’lo!
KAPLAH!