Human 'suspended animation' trials to start this month

[qwertywarrior]

wake me up when HL3 comes

ive been waiting for this for a while

sounds awesome

 

 

The researchers behind it don't want to call it suspended animation, but it's the most conventional way to explain it. The world's first humans trials will start at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, with 10 patients whose injuries would otherwise be fatal to operate on. A team of surgeons will remove the patient's blood, replacing it with a chilled saline solution that would cool the body, slowing down bodily functions and delaying death from blood loss. According to Dr. Samuel Tisherman, talking to New Scientist: "We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation."

Successful tests on pigs were achieved in 2000. After inducing fatal cuts, scientists were able to drop the body temperatures by around 10 degrees celsius. All the control pigs died, while those 'preserved" had a 90 percent survival rate - after some heart restarts. Like these trials, the technique is currently only useful for emergency procedures after severe injuries, situations with a survival rate of only seven percent. Funding for part of the project has come from the US Army, and the idea apparently came from the Vietnam War, where military surgeons noted that the leading cause of death was blood loss in the first 5 to 20 minutes after injury, even though roughly a third of the soldiers had wounds that would have been survivable in a typical emergency room. Science fiction-like suspended animation is still a way off: this preservation state can apparently only be prolonged for around four hours. Not nearly enough for an intergalactic journey, but possibly enough to save lives.

 

if your wondering about brain death from lack of oxygenHowever, at lower temperatures, cells need less oxygen because all chemical reactions slow down. This explains why people who fall into icy lakes can sometimes be revived more than half an hour after they have stopped breathing.

it only lasts up to 2 hours

 

 

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/26/human-suspended-animation-trials/

 

for more detail info see here

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129623.000-gunshot-victims-to-be-suspended-between-life-and-death.html#.U4M9qCh9DW4

[Askew]

They are going to delay death from blood loss, by removing all the patient's blood?

 

wat

[qwertywarrior]

They are going to delay death from blood loss, by removing all the patient's blood?

 

wat

and replacing with cold saline

check out the second link for more details

[Askew]

and replacing with cold saline

check out the second link for more details

 

I know I know lol I was just querying the way it was phrased. :lol:

[RelentlessAF]

Is this the cryo-sleep chambers suspended animation? Or the Lazarus project from Mass Effect 2 suspended animation?

[qwertywarrior]

Is this the cryo-sleep chambers suspended animation? Or the Lazarus project from Mass Effect 2 suspended animation?

none

u cant do this for long periods "up to 2 hours"

[FloRolf]

how cool would that be, if you could freeze yourself for like 1000 years and then be the same as today only in a (probably) super epic world

[RelentlessAF]

none

u cant do this for long periods "up to 2 hours"

But maybe that's just the beginning.

[Camul]

how cool would that be, if you could freeze yourself for like 1000 years and then be the same as today only in a (probably) super epic world

It'd be awesome if you could wake up in a Mass Effect. Not so cool if you woke up to Fallout.

[qwertywarrior]

But maybe that's just the beginning.

maybe with other methods but not saline

any colder and it will cause damage

[qwertywarrior]

It'd be awesome if you could wake up in a Mass Effect. Not so cool if you woke up to Fallout.

just in case sleep with a million bottle caps

[kuddlesworth9419]

Not going to lie but if a technology like this ever came about there would have to be serious restrictions on normal life. If you could live theoretically forever (eg. your cells divided perfectly) I would imagine that our governments would make us or most of us infertile. I just hope this happens in my lifetime.

[RelentlessAF]

Not going to lie but if a technology like this ever came about there would have to be serious restrictions on normal life. If you could live theoretically forever (eg. your cells divided perfectly) I would imagine that our governments would make us or most of us infertile. I just hope this happens in my lifetime.

Makes sense, we are already over-populated as it is. The more people the more resources we use and the closer we get to extinction. Top that off with immortality and we have a huge problem.

[Accursed Entity]

Not going to lie but if a technology like this ever came about there would have to be serious restrictions on normal life. If you could live theoretically forever (eg. your cells divided perfectly) I would imagine that our governments would make us or most of us infertile. I just hope this happens in my lifetime.

The truth is, most of us wouldn't be getting our hands on a technology like that. The only way I could see most of the human race with "immortality", would be hundreds of years(if not more) after we're capable of that technology(if we're able to live out of this planet). The life expectancy have been going up with the advancing of science/medicine. But currently there's a "level cap" on our lives the maximum being 125 years, that's theoretically speaking of course,

 

I do think is possible, it's only a matter of time, which most of us don't have. I'm already 28 years old, working in a hospital, so I'm realistic, I know I won't be able to see that technology. So don't wait, just enjoy your life and embrace the opportunity given by the universe. 

 

"I would imagine that our governments would make us or most of us infertile" - This is so true.

[TopWargamer]

This will definitely be interesting to keep up with. If they can pull it off successfully, well, a lot of cool things can then be done. 

[alepodj]

how cool would that be, if you could freeze yourself for like 1000 years and then be the same as today only in a (probably) super epic world

FUTURAMA? seen it?

[martinrox1568]

But maybe that's just the beginning.

its already possible now but illegal atleast until you are legally dead. Google it for more info because you can do it today, and I'm to lazy to go into detail

[Admire]

This must never happen. There are far too many rich tools alive who really need to have an expiration date.

 

 

 

its already possible now but illegal atleast until you are legally dead. Google it for more info because you can do it today, and I'm to lazy to go into detail

 

But why would it work if you are legally dead?

 

 

 

 

 

I kinda doubt that this will be possible if we are talking about long periods(years)......Helping doctors by giving them extra time to save people is something else and it looks like this is what they are going for....

 

But if they do make it happen, I want to mindfuck Sandra Bullock too.

 

[RelentlessAF]

its already possible now but illegal atleast until you are legally dead. Google it for more info because you can do it today, and I'm to lazy to go into detail

I've seen a documentary on it but it causes subjects to die with no possible chance of recovery as of yet. So this seems like a technique that could also revive you after you enter a sort of "dead" state.

[martinrox1568]

I've seen a documentary on it but it causes subjects to die with no possible chance of recovery as of yet. So this seems like a technique that could also revive you after you enter a sort of "dead" state.

What I've read is that they can successfully "put you to sleep" but can't yet wake you up

[JigglyPufflez]

I'm not really knowledgeable in this topic, but what about the lack of oxygen going to the brain if the blood is replaced with the cold saline solution? Doesn't lack of oxygen cause brain damage? ._.