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Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathing
TechWrench ^ | August 23, 2012

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breathing; oxygen
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

“microparticle” — another term from the education success story that is modern America.

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.


41 posted on 05/08/2013 7:29:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The microparticles can keep an object alive for up to 30 min”

So, it can keep....a rock alive for 30 minutes?
Who writes these articles?


42 posted on 05/08/2013 7:30:06 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paging Mr. Armstrong....paging Mr. Armstrong!!!!


43 posted on 05/08/2013 7:39:52 PM PDT by free from tyranny
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To: SunkenCiv
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44 posted on 05/08/2013 7:40:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Marcella
For your consideration.

/johnny

45 posted on 05/08/2013 7:42:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: topher
Lithium hydroxide.

See? Simple. ;)

/johnny

46 posted on 05/08/2013 7:46:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, great. I knew they’d find a way to keep Michelle Obama and the other vampires alive.


47 posted on 05/08/2013 7:56:43 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
“For your consideration.”

I had read this. It could save a lot of people on an operating table who get into breathing trouble. Thirty minutes to get the person back. The possibilities are many to save lives. Put it on ambulances and prolong life to get patient to the hospital.

However, what I want to know is, how long does it take a vegetable seed to germinate and start growing? I've got six bags of potting soil mix full of seeds and none has come up. Sure, this is off topic for this thread, but it's real life and is what matters to me right now. Also, there is a baby squirrel who is tromping around in those bags.

48 posted on 05/08/2013 7:57:49 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: skeeter

We’re going to lose baloney? Why?


49 posted on 05/08/2013 7:58:04 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
So I could go diving for 30 minutes without SCUBA gear?

Nothing is ever free so I would guess the harder you work your muscles the shorter time the injection will last. If you just lay still you get 30 minutes, I wouldn't complain about that if I was having a heart attack.

Regards,
GtG

50 posted on 05/08/2013 7:58:52 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gilliweed!


51 posted on 05/08/2013 7:58:53 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: cripplecreek

;’)


52 posted on 05/08/2013 8:06:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Mmogamer
That was my first thought too.


53 posted on 05/08/2013 8:12:30 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wonder what Lance Armstrong could do with this baby?


54 posted on 05/08/2013 8:14:38 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Breathing creates CO2 which causes Gorebull warming and since we no longer need to breathe, it is banned.

That brings up an interesting question, what happens to the CO2 that can no longer be exhaled?

55 posted on 05/08/2013 9:38:08 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Plan "B" is now Plan "A")
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To: rawcatslyentist

You gonna tell me you wouldn’t take Nixon’s reanimated head over what we are saddled with now?


56 posted on 05/08/2013 10:15:19 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: driftdiver

Diving is strenuous?


57 posted on 05/08/2013 10:23:01 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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To: topher
There is one problem with this. CO2 buildup can kill you.

I wonder how they might manage that - from what I understand, the lack of oxygen doesn't cause one to feel like their suffocating - it's the build-up of CO2. How much CO2 build-up does it take to cause damage if the O2 levels remain good?

58 posted on 05/09/2013 4:13:26 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb; topher

We have ways of absorbing CO2 out of the air. Something similar could probably be developed for blood.


59 posted on 05/09/2013 6:28:04 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too late for Mary Jo Kopechne...


60 posted on 05/09/2013 6:52:34 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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