Real-life Cold Berthing coming soon?

[Spinward Scout]

Is this a prelude to Low Passage?

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/...death-in-the-first-suspended-animation-trials

 

[Vladika]

Is this a prelude to Low Passage?



http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...death-in-the-first-suspended-animation-trials

Thanks for the link! Fascinating stuff going on these days.

 

[aramis]

Is this a prelude to Low Passage?



http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...death-in-the-first-suspended-animation-trials

Yes, it sure seems like it is.

 

[Patron Zero]

Sounds like I just might soon be able to be declared dead for tax reasons !

 

[BlackBat242]

You mean... "Spend a year dead for tax purposes".

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

I'm afraid to get my hopes up. I was all excited about using low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide to cause hibernation in small mammals only to find that research and experimentation proved that the effect did not scale up to larger mammals.

I think this is great medicine, but we aren't that much nearer to low berths.

 

[aramis]

I'm afraid to get my hopes up. I was all excited about using low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide to cause hibernation in small mammals only to find that research and experimentation proved that the effect did not scale up to larger mammals.

I think this is great medicine, but we aren't that much nearer to low berths.

Hydrogen Sulfide has not been ruled out yet. It's just not the instant hibernation solution in large mammals; see Wagner.

Wagner K, et al.: Of mice and men (and sheep, swine, etc.): The intriguing hemodynamic and metabolic effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Critical Care 2011, 15:146.