Posted on 05/08/2013 6:10:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
New Medical Discovery
A team of scientists at the Boston Childrens 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 persons 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 Childrens 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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Awesome.
I wish I was young.
When are they going to come up with a Benjamin Button particle?
I shall call you Sub-Mariner.
OMG I thought of that ...a WALKER!!!!
Thank you, President Obama, for helping Dr. John Kheir build that oxygen particle.
Will it cure snoring?
I do believe this is the first thread that ever made me LOL before I read even the first paragraph.
LOL!!!
Metered just right much like an insulin pump a person could breath on mars without a suit, as far as I know its not a vacuum just not enough oxygen.
High altitude climbers can benefit as well.
Restaurants could have a crash kit with this in case of severe food choking.
Lifeguards, the list goes on and on, yes this is HUGE.
For those of us who are truly lazy, breathing is now optional?
My wife would love this for when we play “Duch Oven”.
(She doesn’t like the game as it is but this would help)
Yup, ST TOS has successfully predicted the future once again.
The atmospheric pressure is still too low on mars. Your lungs would hemorrhage etc.
On the other hand it could lead to carrying less oxygen when working on the surface.
Thanks for your input - global warming notwithstanding!
What about respiratory acidosis?
my gosh, it sounds like they are giving someone the bends to cure them!
Scientists Invent Media Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Vote Without Thinking
Glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that comment, or somebody would have owed me a new computer. That comment fits with a comment about Hillary "What difference does it make" Clinton being cold-blooded that I heard today. ROFLMAO
this will become a new “Human Right” that must be subsidized for the Parasite Class.
“Breathing is Hard Work!”
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