Posted on 05/08/2013 6:10:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New Medical Discovery
A team of scientists at the Boston Children’s Hospital have invented what is being considered one the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent years. They have designed a microparticle that can be injected into a person’s bloodstream that can quickly oxygenate their blood. This will even work if the ability to breathe has been restricted, or even cut off entirely.
This finding has the potential to save millions of lives every year. The microparticles can keep an object alive for up to 30 min after respiratory failure. This is accomplished through an injection into the patients’ veins. Once injected, the microparticles can oxygenate the blood to near normal levels. This has countless potential uses as it allows life to continue when oxygen is needed but unavailable. For medical personnel, this is just enough time to avoid risking a heart attack or permanent brain injury when oxygen is restricted or cut off to patients.
Dr. John Kheir, who first began the study, works in the Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Cardiology. He found inspiration for the drug in 2006, when he was treating a girl in the ICU who had a severe case of pneumonia......
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Great. Now I can finally surf Mavericks.
Tri-ox compund?
OK, this is big. BTT.
So I could go diving for 30 minutes without SCUBA gear?
Miraculous!
Call your broker to short the Breath Freshener Industry stocks!
They need to study how liberals live as mammals when they are such cold blooded creatures.
Oxygen Pop-rocks?
So now Bloomberg can finally ban breathing. Breathing creates CO2 which causes Gorebull warming and since we no longer need to breathe, it is banned.
I foresee cheating free divers.
CO2 buildup can kill you.
If your pH gets too high or too low, it is lethal.
CO2 must also be removed.
This is why some patients who require oxygen must have a setting to force them to breathe -- to eliminate CO2
In nursing, one learns about this -- a nurse must know about this.
It’s held in place by a cage of twelve beer ions.
Do they have a cure for going over the falls backwards, hitting the bottom, and getting dragged into the boneyard? I think I will still pass on Mavs.
Unintended consequences - Abalone become extinct.
They have my permission to try it on the radical left first.
And, it turns rust into undercoating!
When this was first mentioned last year, it had not yet been through its Stage III human testing. And that’s a big sticking point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_substitutes
There has long been blood substitutes called “oxygen therapeutics”, that are typically hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOC) and perfluorocarbon-based oxygen carriers (PFBOC). And while they work, there is some concern that they could damage internal organs if used too long.
However, it seems to me that their best short term application may not be “whole body” use, but in the equivalent of a single limb blood bypass.
Say someone has a crushed hand, and blood cannot circulate. Doctors have been so desperate that they use sanitized leeches to suck the stagnant blood from the hand so more oxygenated blood can flow in.
However, if you rig a bypass, for both the artery and the vein in the upper arm, and substitute the oxygen therapeutic for their blood, just a little bit of it oozing into the hand may do wonders for tissue oxygenation.
Importantly, some of these fluids contain much more oxygen than does hemoglobin, so a little bit may go a long way.
Zombie time, zombie time across the USA
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“So I could go diving for 30 minutes without SCUBA gear?”
Probably not. For one diving is strenuous and you use more oxygen.
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