How would you manage a head transplant?

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http://nypost.com/2017/04/28/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year/

‘We’ll try to bring patients back to life’: Surgeon plans to ‘revive’ frozen human brains by 2020

“Out of his mind” surgeon plans human head transplant, revival of frozen brain

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[deleted126335]

 

[pgg]

Slowly back away and call inpatient psychiatry to let them know they left the door unlocked again.

 

[Psai]

wtf...
I'm not tubing that

 

[Planktonmd]

Many amazing ideas were initially considered crazy by almost everyone.
The idea is no longer impossible with the new techniques that actually allow to reconnect freshly severed nerves. This was already done in animals.
So If we can reconnect the spinal cord all the other details of the surgery are feasible.

 

[anbuitachi]

get a CRNA and let the surgeon be the supervising physician

My guess is do ecmo with extra set of tubes once head is removed

i can imagine the patient living afterwards, just that their function will be awful.. imagine the body rejecting teh brain hahahah

 

[gasdoc77]

Retrograde wire

 

[pgg]

Many amazing ideas were initially considered crazy by almost everyone.
The idea is no longer impossible with the new techniques that actually allow to reconnect freshly severed nerves. This was already done in animals.
So If we can reconnect the spinal cord all the other details of the surgery are feasible.

It's OK plankton, you can all crazy people crazy, irresponsible people irresponsible, and reckless people reckless. This jerk is all three.

Until we make a lot more progress on reconnecting nerves, the best possible outcome from a body transplant is a sentiently-aware person with zero sensory input and zero motor control. That's not a tolerable outcome. He might as well be transplanting the brain next to the pancreas for all the good it's going to do in the skull.

There's nothing to be learned from this kind of experimentation and no benefit to the patient. He should be stopped and his license to practice medicine revoked. Full stop.

 

[waterbottle10]

It's OK plankton, you can all crazy people crazy, irresponsible people irresponsible, and reckless people reckless. This jerk is all three.

Until we make a lot more progress on reconnecting nerves, the best possible outcome from a body transplant is a sentiently-aware person with zero sensory input and zero motor control. That's not a tolerable outcome. He might as well be transplanting the brain next to the pancreas for all the good it's going to do in the skull.

There's nothing to be learned from this kind of experimentation and no benefit to the patient. He should be stopped and his license to practice medicine revoked. Full stop.

Surgeon will still be very famous for being first to do head transplant even if outcome sucks. Look at Ben Carson

 

[PressureSupport]

The term "head transplant" is probably a misnomer. Since the consciousness and core of a person's essence is in the brain, the procedure is a "full body transplant," right?

 

[drmwvr]

Not this specifically, but atrocities like this are just the logical progression of humanity being seen as simply a means to an end. Cloning, fetal stem cell technologies, human-animal chimeras even for the most noble of intentions necessarily must push the envelope forward to this sort of thing. Can't say I'm too surprised, even if this one example is a ridiculous caricature of the reality.

 

[waterbottle10]

The term "head transplant" is probably a misnomer. Since the consciousness and core of a person's essence is in the brain, the procedure is a "full body transplant," right?

Yep it's a body transplant

 

[nimbus]

Simple.

 

[pre med 2014]

get a CRNA and let the surgeon be the supervising physician

My guess is do ecmo with extra set of tubes once head is removed

i can imagine the patient living afterwards, just that their function will be awful.. imagine the body rejecting teh brain hahahah

The donor body will NOT reject the brain. CNS is spared in GVHD

 

[anbuitachi]

The donor body will NOT reject the brain. CNS is spared in GVHD

I just did a literature search. It does dmg the brain, just rare. It probably will be less rare when you are transplanting an entire body hahah