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Originally Posted by brentbacardi
So why hasn't anyone tried pumping oxygen to a person's brain when their heart stops using a machine? Then scan the brain for activity for a few days and see if its still going.
This seems like the next logical test in extending human life beyond the body. But as far as I know, nobody is trying this.
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The brain is a fairly sensitive mechanism - think of it this way, your car works by turning fuel into controlled combustion, which is fire. but if you pump a bunch of fire into your car you probably won't get the result you want.
Heart transplants require blood substitute and often result in "pump head", like you see in bill clinton, where he clearly is not as "on" as he was. So the method to deliver oxygen to brain cells would have to be more complex than we currently have.