<story><title>Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solotronics</author><text>&amp;quot;He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived.&amp;quot; I think this is a pretty important detail to leave out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sp332</author><text>According to an interview, they&amp;#x27;re trying to get the survival rate of this level of trauma up from 5-10% to maybe 20%. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popsci.com&amp;#x2F;reanimators&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popsci.com&amp;#x2F;reanimators&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; So there&amp;#x27;s not much to tell from one person surviving or not.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/20/humans-put-into-suspended-animation-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>solotronics</author><text>&amp;quot;He said at least one patient had had the procedure but did not elaborate on whether that patient or any others had survived.&amp;quot; I think this is a pretty important detail to leave out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codingdave</author><text>Perhaps. We&amp;#x27;re talking about people with a 5% change of surviving their injuries. If this doubles their chances, 90% of the patients still die. So the result of a single case might not be as relevant as it would seem.</text></comment>