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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Is there a Doctor in the house?
ISIS stocks rise
Scam.
I don’t understand how you’d get around major tissue rejection...
Paging Doctor Stein.
Paging Doctor Stein.
Doctor Frank. N. Stein, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
If you are still seeing people paralyzed from spinal cord injuryies, this surgery will not be performed.
FIRE BAD!!!
Wasn’t this Roger Corman movie?
Hello Dr Nick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_w_n-8w3IQ
While reading this article, I just had the coldest feeling go over me...this stuff is not real...
Yep, and the tissue that would be subject to rejection would be THE HEAD, in its entirety. They will like use drugs to minimize the “rejection” mechanism.
And the spinal cord! How do you fuse a head to the spine... just no way that person survive just no freaking way!
Reminds me of an old expression my niece used to say to describe a bad comparison. “Totally different head.”
Tacrolimus and other similar drugs - for life.
If they expect “unexpected psychological reactions” are the really unexpected?
"It's so simple, even a child could do it".
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Goodbye, Spirinodov! Fare thee well!
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