For those with medical knowledge: can you actually sustain a body like this?
I don't think you need "medical knowledge" to say NO. Her organs are out. You need those to live. Diachysis and dialysis can make up for fucked up livers and kidneys, but there is no way to make up for having your guts removed.
I don't think you need "medical knowledge" to say NO. Her organs are out. You need those to live. Diachysis and dialysis can make up for fucked up livers and kidneys, but there is no way to make up for having your guts removed.
Nope, it's actually possible...well, not for a long time, though. Muscle wasting, dehydration from open abdominal cavity and possible infection on the exposed bones would limit these kind of display for days at most.
The whole nutrient transport system is contained in your blood. The half of the entire body's waste disposal was carried by blood. By eliminating the GI tract you'd basically eliminate all the solid waste that the body produces, leaving only non-solid metabolites and chemical products that's carried by the blood, so based on medical knowledge system you can have a person still alive in this state with nutrient therapy via IV lines as long as you can manage the aforementioned problems. Yes, there will be problems with RBC metabolism but as I said before, she won't survive for long enough for that to be a problem (and you can still remedy it by dialysis).
Nope, it's actually possible...well, not for a long time, though. Muscle wasting, dehydration from open abdominal cavity and possible infection on the exposed bones would limit these kind of display for days at most.
The whole nutrient transport system is contained in your blood. The half of the entire body's waste disposal was carried by blood. By eliminating the GI tract you'd basically eliminate all the solid waste that the body produces, leaving only non-solid metabolites and chemical products that's carried by the blood, so based on medical knowledge system you can have a person still alive in this state with nutrient therapy via IV lines as long as you can manage the aforementioned problems. Yes, there will be problems with RBC metabolism but as I said before, she won't survive for long enough for that to be a problem (and you can still remedy it by dialysis).
