Suspended animation trials begin on humans

Recently I posted about one of the modern advanced in technology, 3d printing is being used to treat medical conditions by replaceing human organs with 3d printing organs. Today I read [this story] something out of science fiction is coming to medicine. That is suspended animation.

Yes, surgeons at a hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will soon start human trials with suspended animation, on patients coming with gunshot and stab injuries.

However it’s not like the science fiction suspended animation. They are hoping to cool the body with cold saline replacing the blood which will cool down the brain and heart first stopping their functions. Then later it’ll cool down other organs of the body. It’s somewhat like slowing down the time of your body

This will buy more time for the surgeons to repair your wounds that are lethal and regain consciousness later when the bleeding has stopped.

If this works and goes into general practice then it will be one of the best advances in medicine. It’s a pretty interesting idea, putting a human body into suspended animation. What if we can permanently seize the functions of the body in a similar manner to regain life later, it’ll be like virtual time travelling plus will solve one of the biggest problems space travel.

One of the obstacles in space travel no matter how fast we’ll travel it will still take more than one human lifespan to reach a target planet outside solar system. Like in [Arthur C Clarke](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke) novels that I read as a child we’ll be able to put astronauts in suspended animation to gain the consciousness back when they reach the target destination.