It does not happen in the sense that happened in the movie, but there exists a surgical procedure that require the patient to be clinically dead: hypothermic cardiac arrest. It has been used under some complicated brain surgeries and operation of aneyrisms where operating normal pressurized arteries would likely kill the patient if something went wrong.
Here is one case report where such a method was used:
http://jnnp.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/72/3/394
It is also common to stop the heart, and restart it again in some types of sudden heart illness.
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Morten S
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