• Question: can people be brought back to life using electricity like frankenstein?

    Asked by 09lomash to Laura, Nicola, Norman, Sandra, Thanasis on 14 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Nicola Wardrop

      Nicola Wardrop answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      When someone’s heart stops, it can sometimes be restarted again using electricity…like in holby city, or casualty! It’s called a defibrillator. However, it doesn’t always work, and it wont help someone who has been dead for a while, so perhaps it’s not quite like frankenstein!

    • Photo: Laura Soul

      Laura Soul answered on 14 Mar 2013:

      I hope not! No I don’t think that this is possible, if someone’s heart stops and they stop breathing then they can technically be considered dead. If you do it quick enough you can use electricity to start their heart again. the problem is that if you don’t do it quick enough then the brain gets starved of oxygen so brain cells start to die and then it can’t ever work properly again. This means that even if you use electricty you can’t get their brain going again, so Frankenstein wouldn’t work unless you could get a perfectly working brain which definitely isn’t possible at the moment.

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