Stasis on the way.

David · Oct 15, 2009

So this guy was thinking 1 day. The cause of his thinking? His daughter's death. What was he thinking? How to stop death so as to give doctors time to fix bodily damage.

Well he's not quite at the human level yet but he has figured out what's needed to make it work and has made it work at smaller scales. The trick? Death isn't caused by oxygen deprivation, oxygen is in fact a poison that, at too low of levels for the body to use, kills. Thus if 1 was to replace oxygen with something else, say hydrogen sulfide, the body would simply go into stasis until the necessary oxygen levels were restored.

I must say, I'm impressed!

deanhills · Oct 16, 2009

David said:
So this guy was thinking 1 day. The cause of his thinking? His daughter's death. What was he thinking? How to stop death so as to give doctors time to fix bodily damage.

Well he's not quite at the human level yet but he has figured out what's needed to make it work and has made it work at smaller scales. The trick? Death isn't caused by oxygen deprivation, oxygen is in fact a poison that, at too low of levels for the body to use, kills. Thus if 1 was to replace oxygen with something else, say hydrogen sulfide, the body would simply go into stasis until the necessary oxygen levels were restored.

I must say, I'm impressed!

As far as I can see, it postpones death a little, in the end we will die anyway. So possibly this could only be a good idea for situations like organ transplants when these have been delayed for any reason, or similar situations where time is needed for doctors to fix bodily damage.

David · Oct 16, 2009

deanhills said:
As far as I can see, it postpones death a little, in the end we will die anyway. So possibly this could only be a good idea for situations like organ transplants when these have been delayed for any reason, or similar situations where time is needed for doctors to fix bodily damage.

That's what I said.

myp · Oct 16, 2009

This is certainly a very interesting study and it could potentially save many lives if it works out as planned. Of course before this is used on humans there will and should be a lot more testing, especially for any potential side effects such as permanent brain damage.

DodgeFB · Oct 16, 2009

When my oldest daughter was killed in a head on crash nothing would have saved her. The EMT that worked on her in the car said she was already gone. I meet him one day at her grave. He saw me there and stopped. Of course legally they had to do the CPR thing and wait for a doctor to make her officially dead. Guess what I am saying badly is since she had to die I am glad it was quick. I never had to tell anyone to "let her go". I really wanted to blame someone, but the driver of the other car died before she hit my daughter.

David · Oct 16, 2009

DodgeFB said:
When my oldest daughter was killed in a head on crash nothing would have saved her. The EMT that worked on her in the car said she was already gone. I meet him one day at her grave. He saw me there and stopped. Of course legally they had to do the CPR thing and wait for a doctor to make her officially dead. Guess what I am saying badly is since she had to die I am glad it was quick. I never had to tell anyone to "let her go". I really wanted to blame someone, but the driver of the other car died before she hit my daughter.

WTF? Sorry man, that sucks.

Still I don't think this is meant so much for mortal wounds as it is to save people from heart attacks, strokes, bleeding out, poisoning, ect.

deanhills · Oct 19, 2009

DodgeFB said:
When my oldest daughter was killed in a head on crash nothing would have saved her. The EMT that worked on her in the car said she was already gone. I meet him one day at her grave. He saw me there and stopped. Of course legally they had to do the CPR thing and wait for a doctor to make her officially dead. Guess what I am saying badly is since she had to die I am glad it was quick. I never had to tell anyone to "let her go". I really wanted to blame someone, but the driver of the other car died before she hit my daughter.

Ditto here Dodge, I'm really sorry to hear. Can't be anything worse than a child dying before her parent. Especially in a situation like this.

Stasis on the way.

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