[MrEdd]

Sure.

Get back to me when humans are successfully revived from long term “suspended animation”.

[ResponseAbility]

Uh-oh, Upgrayedd gonna get his money!

[Buckeye McFrog]

The process involves rapidly cooling the brain to less than 10C by replacing the patient’s blood with ice-cold saline solution.

I've done it by gulping down Dairy Queen in July.

[umgud]

The patients, who are often victims of stabbings or shootings, would normally have less than a 5% chance of survival.

This could lower the murder rate in Chicago.

[Larry Lucido]

Here you go.

[RedStateRocker]

I imagine that if the equipment could be made chopper portable this would be a Very Good Thing on the battlefield.

[\/\/ayne]

This novel of an early hibernation experiment predicted smartphones in the future world the hibernated man woke up in. Except the portable computer/phones were called "Joysticks" and also shot an LSD type drug mist if you needed a pick-me-up.

[faithhopecharity]

HilLIARy (and Ruth Bader Ginsberg) look like early trial failures

[RandallFlagg]

[fruser1]

When I saw this was from the Guardian I thought they were doing this in the UK to help patients waiting for service.

[Alas Babylon!]

He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived.

Not to go out on a limb, but surviving would be a pretty important point before we all jump up and call this a success...

[Moonman62]

Hospitals have been using ice tables for a long time.

Also, during open heart surgery I believe they chill the blood with the bypass machine and pack ice around the heart.

So this new therapy doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary except for the use of saline.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Isn’t that what we call an “Induced coma?”

[Advil000]

Someone with some real medical background need to explain the ramifications to us.

At 10C (That is 50F or LESS) a person would have to be close to or experiencing brain death. How much activity is going on at or below 50F?

This sounds for all purposes like what happens when someone gets trapped in an ice lake then they drag them out later and revive them... the exception being that they aren’t freezing the rest of the body so it can be worked on.

How long can you leave a brain with no blood flow at those temps and not be dead? We’ve always been told that if you are unconscious in freezing water for more than 5-10 minutes you are gone.

So how does this prevent that?

[SeekAndFind]

Will he emerge eventually as....

[Charles Martel]

Sure, the *tell* you that you’ll be placed in suspended animation. Then you end up on one of those conveyer belts leading into the Soylent Corporation’s processing facility.

[struggle]

[Revel]

What happens when they put Ginsburg into suspended animation and then declare her justice for eternity.

[G Larry]

At least to get past the impeachment inquiry and Dem debates.....

[freedomlover]