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Slowing Biological Time to Extend the Golden Hour for Lifesaving Treatment
When a Service member suffers a traumatic injury or acute infection, the time from event to first medical treatment is usually the single most significant factor in determining the outcome between saving a life or not. First responders must act as quickly as possible, first to ensure a patient's sheer survival and then to prevent permanent disability. The Department of Defense refers to this critical, initial window of time as the "golden hour," but in many cases the opportunity to successfully intervene may extend much less than sixty minutes, which is why the military invests so heavily in moving casualties as rapidly as possible from the battlefield to suitable medical facilities. However, due to the realities of combat, there are often hard limits to the availability of rapid medical transport and care.
DARPA [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] created the Biostasis program to develop new possibilities for extending the golden hour, not by improving logistics or battlefield care, but by going after time itself, at least how the body manages it. Biostasis will attempt to directly address the need for additional time in continuously operating biological systems faced with catastrophic, life-threatening events. The program will leverage molecular biology to develop new ways of controlling the speed at which living systems operate, and thus extend the window of time following a damaging event before a system collapses. Essentially, the concept aims to slow life to save life.
[...] DARPA will hold a Proposers Day webinar on March 20, 2018, at 12:30 PM EDT to provide more information about Biostasis and answer questions from potential proposers. For details of the event, including registration requirements, visit: https://go.usa.gov/xnzqE.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:16AM (3 children)
I mean, come on guys! That's not an act of creation, that opening another tap to syphon some funds from every American's pocket to maintain USA's capability of... umm... defence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @02:08PM (1 child)
Seems like SF must have proposed something like this, but I can't remember any specific books or shows.
Then there is the extreme version, cryogenic preservation...
(Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:22PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @02:55AM
but idiocracy coming!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @11:41AM
The hotter the CPU runs, the slower. Ah say, roast that wounded soldiers.
Or the other way around.
(Score: 2) by LVDOVICVS on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:12PM
"...continuously operating biological systems..."
I guess this is the replacement for "hot bod?"
(Score: 1) by NearlyEverywhere on Thursday March 08 2018, @09:19PM (1 child)
Seriously,
They seem to have some geeks on staff that want to create all the cool/scary Sci-Fi stuff. It's pretty cool until a mishaps creates a supervillain.
Self driving cars
Robot dogs
and now stasis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:59AM
I wish they'd hurry up and get the stacks from Altered Carbon figured out. Even if for nothing other than maintaining generals who just get better and better at military strategy over the centuries.