worlds first head transplant planned for 2017

[Barry White]

Its been tried with mice dogs and monkeys in the past but other than Frankenstien its unheard of and thought imposible by normal doctors. Who say if the opperation goes well the life expectancy even with drugs to stop rejection is poor and it will be rejected.
Docter Canavero has named the procedure HEAVEN and insists the necessary techniques already exist to do the operation.
Valery Spiridonov has faith in the operation which will take 36 hours he suffers from a muscle wasting disease and just wants the chance to get a new body before he dies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3029376/Russian-volunteer-head-transplant-operation-Valery-Spiridonov-says-no-choice-undergo-7-5million-procedure-controversial-Italian-surgeon-Dr-Sergio-Canavero.html

 

[rapparee]

Who would donate a brain dead family member?

 

[Octopus]

Who would donate a brain dead family member?

Mrs Ed Milliband?

 

[rapparee]

 

[D Skelton]

Having read the story I'm intrigued.

I know a fair amount about surgical procedures although I am in no way a surgeon! What I cannot work out is how he will manage to maintain blood flow to the brain during the actual movement from one body to another. You can cut nerves and ligaments, you can place vessels on bypass whilst you repair them, however how on earth will he keep the heart pumping in not one, but two headless bodies, and a bodyless head, whilst he stitches everything together?!

9 seconds without blood and the brain will shut down. That's a minutely small window!

 

[uksparks]

I was just discussing this with the mrs, we were just saying, could they connect an oxygenated blood supply to the head and then put in on the shelf with it conscious, a bit science fiction, just a head and no body.

 

[shanky887614]

ive seen a video of the monkey head transplant and it was disgusting to watch, do not google it you will wish you hadnt i watched it on tv a few years ago

 

[D Skelton]

To make the vessel swap easy to comprehend, in simple there is a blood supply in to the brain, and a blood supply out. Like a live and a neutral conductor to a lamp.

Imagine having two gennys, one supplying a light, the other just running. Just swapping the live conductor over, then the neutral conductor over will kill the light for the duration of the swap. They both have to be swapped over together, live, and in nine seconds.

I really don't know how it's possible?!

 

[shanky887614]

To make the vessel swap easy to comprehend, in simple there is a blood supply in to the brain, and a blood supply out. Like a live and a neutral conductor to a lamp.

Imagine having two gennys, one supplying a light, the other just running. Just swapping the live conductor over, then the neutral conductor over will kill the light for the duration of the swap. They both have to be swapped over together, live, and in nine seconds.

I really don't know how it's possible?!

they managed it with the monkeys skelton but the monkey didnt live long

 

[Marvo]

I'm puzzled why they call it a 'head' transplant and not a body transplant. They're not giving a person a new head because as soon as the head is replaced it's actually a new person. They're actually giving a head a new body.

 

[Geordie Spark]

ive seen a video of the monkey head transplant and it was disgusting to watch, do not google it you will wish you hadnt i watched it on tv a few years ago

I think you have just described my ex-wife there.

 

[tidyboiler]

I think you have just described my ex-wife there.

:rofl: bit of an insult to monkeys...... they are intelligent!! :dita:

 

[Geordie Spark]

I would like to nominate Ed Millipede for the first head transplant. He's one very weird looking chancer.

 

[Geordie Spark]

:rofl: bit of an insult to monkeys...... they are intelligent!! :dita:

You never met her.

You may like her if you did. :laugh:

 

[snowhead]

T They both have to be swapped over together, live, and in nine seconds.

I really don't know how it's possible?!

Parallel connections, maintaining correct polarity and synchronising both supplies of course..

 

[tidyboiler]

You never met her.

You may like her if you did. :laugh:

I didn't need to!!.. Just looking at her clothes gave it away. :rofl: (and no I wouldn't...... )

 

[VoltzElectrical]

I thought there were two supplies to the head, one on each side. The Carotid arteries take blood to the head and the Jugular veins take the blood away.

Totally impossible to remove a head and maintain oxegenated blood to the brain in the time frames needed for brain function to remain normal if at all. If this procedure WAS 'successful' then the patient would wake up like me. If the patient wants that, then crack on dudes!

 

[plugsandsparks]

I'm puzzled why they call it a 'head' transplant and not a body transplant. They're not giving a person a new head because as soon as the head is replaced it's actually a new person. They're actually giving a head a new body.

I like the sound of that. I need a new back, knee, foot, right shoulder and the liver and lungs are probably due a service. At some point a full body transplant, preferably an 18 year old descendant of Usain Bolt, makes more sense. Is it really difficult ? and on the NHS ?

 

[rapparee]

They chill the body temperature to 10-15 °C, this will supposedly slow everything down and give them the time to operate

 

[Jonspark]

They could of course do the procedure in zero gravity where time is much slower than on earth, or in a black hole would be better.