Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathing

TechWrench ^ | August 23, 2012

[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......

[SunkenCiv]

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

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

“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?

[free from tyranny]

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

[cripplecreek]

[JRandomFreeper]

For your consideration.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Lithium hydroxide.

See? Simple. ;)

/johnny

[righttackle44]

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

[Marcella]

“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.

[righttackle44]

We’re going to lose baloney? Why?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

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

[bigbob]

Gilliweed!

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[PeaceBeWithYou]

That was my first thought too.

[Cyman]

Wonder what Lance Armstrong could do with this baby?

[Mike Darancette]

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?

[Trod Upon]

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

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Diving is strenuous?

[trebb]

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?

[TalonDJ]

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

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Too late for Mary Jo Kopechne...