For the first time, scientists have used therapeutic suspended animation to purposefully induce hypothermia and slow organ functions in patients with traumatic injuries, such as gunshot and stab ...
Suspended animation has allowed many a sci-fi character to travel to a distant corner of space in a state of dormancy, only reanimating once they’ve arrived at their otherworldly destination. Now, the ...
For the first time ever, doctors will begin trials of a new method to save patients by placing them in a state of “suspended animation” where they are neither dead nor alive. It’s hoped that this ...
Patients are commonly given written information, for example in the form of leaflets; however, they often do not retain it and poor literacy is a barrier for many. To address this, working in ...
In an office where the only light often comes from his computer monitor, Shan Jaffar painstakingly clicks his mouse to tweak tiny pixels forming images of blood cells and platelets moving through a ...
At least one person has reportedly undergone the cutting-edge technique. Suspended animation involves replacing patients’ blood with cold saline fluid for up to two hours, before their hearts are ...
Patients are commonly given written information, for example in the form of leaflets; however, they often do not retain it and poor literacy is a barrier for many. To address this, working in ...
Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years. The idea that the functions of the human body can somehow be put on "pause" while life-saving medical procedures are ...
Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years. The idea that the functions of the human body can somehow be put on "pause" while life-saving medical procedures are ...