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Wounded Bear

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4. Just what we need, a form of "artificial lung"...and I'm not joking.

Reply to Warpy (Original post)

Wed Jun 1, 2022, 04:25 PM

Jun 2022

It seems to me it could be used in a lot of applications, not just covid treatment.

If the lungs are clogged or shut down, like what happens in covid and pneumonia and various other ailments, this could keep the body going while treatments are applied to the lungs.

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Scientists May Have Found a Way to Inject Oxygen Into The Bloodstream Intravenously [View all] Warpy Jun 2022 OP

Great as long as those liquid membrane enclosed oxygen molecules REALLY don't clump hlthe2b Jun 2022 #1

... Anon-C Jun 2022 #2

Uhmmmm. NewDayOranges Jun 2022 #3

Just what we need, a form of "artificial lung"...and I'm not joking. Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #4