Social Media and Blogs keep recycling the news about Head Transplant, but is it even possible??
As announced by an Italian Surgeon , he had some wild plans to transplant human head in 2013. It was rumored that the first head transplant will likely take place in 2017. But, its already 2018 and we have no solid news for it.
The story is based on the work of one man: Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero. Canavero started making headlines in 2013 with ambitious claims about the process he designed for a transplant of a human head — as in, moving a healthy human head from a subject with an unhealthy body to an otherwise-healthy, brain-dead donor body.The most recent news out of Canavero’s camp was the announcement in November 2016 of a “smart surgical cutting device system” that includes a diamond cutting blade and virtual reality system designed specifically for the head transplantation process. Ostensibly, Canavero’s plan is still the same: induce the volunteer (possibly) to hypothermia via cooling unit, separate the head on both the donor and volunteer, swiftly move the volunteer head and carefully reattach, and then monitor the results in the sedated patient before waking them up to several weeks later. The whole thing supposedly requires a team of 150 doctors, so Canavero will have to convince a whole lot of people to go along with him. Oh, and he still needs someone to donate a body that will receive the transplanted head.
But despite what you might have read or seen, humanity is not much closer to transplanting a human head to a new body than we were last year. Sorry to disappoint anyone looking to get their head transplanted.