Humans will be kept between life and death in the first suspended animation trials
 

At a hospital in Pittsburgh, surgeons are now allowed to place patients into a state of suspended animation. If a patient arrives with a traumatic injury, and attempts to restart their heart have failed — if they’re on the doorstep of death — they will have their blood replaced with a cold saline solution, which stops almost all cellular activity. At this point, the patient is clinically dead — but if the doctors can fix the injury within a few hours, they can be returned to life from suspended animation by replacing the saline with blood.

 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/17929...ion-trials

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You know trouble is right around the corner when your best friend tells you to hold his beer!!

So, if I am understanding this correctly, it potentially buys them a little bit more "time" in an attempt to save them or no?...

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"Humans will be kept between life and death in the first suspended animation trials"

 

I didn't know Captain Obvious had a job writing headlines.

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Soylent Green is people!

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Seems pretty cool to me.  

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I have been there many times.

 

 

Regards.......................the Chiefjag

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Note to self. If I get in a car accident, make sure it is in Pittsburgh.

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So, if I am understanding this correctly, it potentially buys them a little bit more "time" in an attempt to save them or no?...

in a sense yes although I'd guess it depends on the extent of the injury and many other factors.

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So, if I am understanding this correctly, it potentially buys them a little bit more "time" in an attempt to save them or no?...

 

When it's your time, it's your time, Ole' Yeller.. 

 

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Kind of creepy really. I have never understood the human need or idea of living forever or having immortality. I wouldn't be able to stomach living forever. I can't imagine a race with no finishing line.

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."

Is this covered under the Affordable Healthcare Act?


Why isn't PETA raising hell over the pig they "tortured" in this experiment?

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Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Kind of creepy really. I have never understood the human need or idea of living forever or having immortality. I wouldn't be able to stomach living forever. I can't imagine a race with no finishing line.

 

It's not about immortality.  It has to do with putting a body in stasis to mend injuries.  It could also be used for space travel in the future.

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It's not about immortality.  It has to do with putting a body in stasis to mend injuries.  It could also be used for space travel in the future.

Good point. Didn't think of it that way. That's something else that also bothers me too. NASA has spent billions of dollars on space shuttles that can defy gravity and make it off our planet. With that said, I wish we would had an equally aggressive program or foundation that was capable of doing the same for our oceans on our planet. I'd like to see what lies beneath. No telling what we'd fine. Surely if we can develop and engineer a machine that can make out into space we should be able to build something that can withstand a substantial amount of pressure to explore deep sea locations (at least more consistently).

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"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."