"Four years of drama school and this is the only gig I can land?"
Posted on 11/22/2016 7:19:41 PM PST by PROCON
You may have heard about the Italian Neurosurgeon, Sergio Canavero, who plans to carry out the world’s first human head transplant next year. Having secured a volunteer for the operation, the professor has just unveiled a virtual reality system that will hopefully “prepare patients for life in a new body,” an experience that could cause unexpected psychological reactions.
Professor Canavero is determined to perform the operation in 2017 on wheelchair user Valery Spiridonov, who runs an educational software company in Russia and suffers from the muscle-wasting Werdnig-Hoffman disease.
Assuming the complex transplant take place, Spiridonov will have his head nearly frozen - reaching around 12 to 15 degrees Celsius - to stop his cells from dying, making him temporarily brain dead. His brain will then be drained of blood and flushed, and tubes made of Silastic will be used to tie up the carotid and jugular veins. These will be loosened to allow circulation when the head is attached to the new body.
Surgeons will slice through the spinal cords of both Spiridonov and the brain-dead donor using a $200,000 custom-made diamond nanoblade that can control cuts to a micrometer. After this part of the operation, the transplant must be completed within an hour, at which point the blood from his new body will theoretically raise Spiridonov's head back to normal temperatures.
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Whoah, sounds like something for Halloween.
"Four years of drama school and this is the only gig I can land?"
LOL, I just watched that corny movie over Halloween.
Why did I agree to a living body donor for my head transplant?
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-keep-a-human-brain-alive-without-its-body
So, maybe this is not just a creative suicide method.
A couple of years ago I heard of a Dr. White, iirc, running experiments on switching heads and bodies.
All I can think of is futurama, with heads under glass.
What is the technology they will use to get the brain and spinal nerves to grow back together? Or will he have a new body and be a quadraplegic?
#28 looks like Walt Disney.
If the patient is a LIB, Can they just transplant the head directly into the rectum?
Why hasn’t he done this operation on a pig? Severed its head and put it back on? See if it can be done without the problems of rejection and with a spinal column that is wired to the head it grew up with?
How could any ethics committee in the west permit this to be done to two human beings?
OMG!!!! THAT’s THE movie I remember from my youth, watching “creature feature” or something like it on a late-night weekend. She’d have a conveyor belt constantly running past the neck! Creepy!
There has been an urban legend since I was a kid, that Walts head is cryogenically frozen, so that some day they could bring him back to life.
Wasn’t this already tried with Ray Milland ?
Rosie Grier wept...
I’ll get a new body without a head transplant.
"Another," it said. "Give me another head."
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