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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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KEYWORDS: breathing; oxygen
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To: TalonDJ
CO2 is carried on hemoglobin to the lungs... There are some CO2 dissolved in the blood, as well.

The reason Carbon Monoxide (CO) is that it prevents oxygen from binding to the hemoglobin.

Just as we have kidney dialysis machines, a machine could probably be developed to remove/scrub CO2 from the blood.

However, the mechanism that expels CO2 from the body is the key mechanism for balancing pH. I believe pH must be in the range of 7.35 to 7.45 (a very narrow range).

61 posted on 05/09/2013 8:32:06 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats can now hold their breath without turning blue.


62 posted on 05/09/2013 1:51:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow! If true and practical this would be an amazing trauma protocol. Imagine someone needing a breathing tube which takes time but the first task is to inject this substance, buying time for the patient.


63 posted on 05/09/2013 2:06:49 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: topher

The problem is that O2 saturation can fall faster than CO2 absorption increases, so when seconds count O2 matters most.


64 posted on 05/09/2013 2:13:10 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad
I imagine once they have this treatment in place, they might have some machine to scrub CO2 in an emergency room.

When I donate blood, they have the ability to just take platelets or just red blood cells.

So it might be possible to get a machine to remove CO2 from the blood like a dialysis machine does.

65 posted on 05/09/2013 2:22:10 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I recall, didn’t Vonnegut write about drinking Hydrogen peroxide - you get both oxygen & water.


66 posted on 05/09/2013 2:23:35 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I’ll stick with the old way.


67 posted on 05/09/2013 2:27:27 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Life, liberty, property, family, RKBA, sovereignty, security, borders, independence, the oath.)
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