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Good news! Your organs are already irrigated by your circulatory system
by computerphage 3y ago
Good news! Your organs are already irrigated by your circulatory system
- burnished 3y agoWhat do you reckon, tamper with the existing fluid, maybe add some heat pipes into the existing large passageways? Not sure if they have the right shape for the kind of temperature change being discussed.
- AstralStorm 3y agoThe other thing would be how to remove this later on and not kill whoever got the transplant with this infusion.
- burnished 3y agoThat part I imagine would probably be the easy bit - just wash it out. Or do you mean the perforated version? I like that idea but needles so small that they don't cause significant damage does seem at cross purposes with heat wicking needles.
- surfpel 3y agoThinking of something like this? https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/nature’s-antifreeze-holds-answer-preserving-human-organs https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/nature’s-antifreeze-hol...
- burnished 3y agoYessir!
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- geokon 3y agoBut doesn't the loop-back happens in capillaries - which are biologically mediated? Totally outside my area of expertise, but I wouldn't expect you can pump cold fluid into arteries and it'll just come gushing out the veins
- computerphage 3y agoI would love an answer to this question
- computerphage 3y agoI found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecmOuCIoNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecmOuCIoNc which makes me thing that pumping cold fluids would work at least a bit.
- surfpel 3y agoI thought of this too but the high throughput of fluid to get fast cooling would require a pressure so high it would destroy the organ. Running micro tubes through the capillaries would require significant advances in materials science.