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. At the time, the girl didn’t have a breathing tube, when at the time she suffered from a pulmonary hemorrhage. This means her lungs had begin to fill up with blood, and she finally went into cardiac arrest. It took doctors about 25 minutes to remove enough blood from her lungs to allow her to breath. Though, the girl’s brain was severely injured due to being deprived of oxygen for that long and she eventually died.
Microparticle Composition
The microparticles used are composed of oxygen gas pocketed in a layer of lipids. A Lipid is a natural molecule that can store energy and act as a part of a cell membrane, they can be made of many things such as wax, vitamins, phospholipids, and in this case fat is the lipid that stores the oxygen.
These microparticles are around two to four micrometers in length and carry about three to four times the oxygen content of our own red blood cells. In the past, researchers had a difficult time succeeding as prior tests caused gas embolism. This meant that the gas molecules would become stuck trying to squeeze through the capillaries. They corrected this issue by packaging them into small deformable particles rather ones where the structure was rigid.
Potential Future Uses
Medical: There is the obvious medical uses where the microparticles can be used to save off death from a restriction in breathing due to inflammation of the lungs, collapsed lungs, and the like. It would be good to have these injections ready in hospitals and ambulances for when the time is needed.
Military: Can you imagine a navy seals capability when they wouldn’t need to surface for air and could stay underwater for over 20 minutes? If a boat was to begin to sink, you could shoot yourself as the boat is going down to ensure you aren’t drowned in the under current of the sinking vessel. How about for toxic gases when a facemask is unavailable. The military could have a number of uses for such a medical advancement.
Private Sector: Really this can be used as a precaution for anything nautical where the potential to drown is a real danger. Deep sea rescue crews could inject themselves prior to making a rescue, underwater welders can use it in case they become stuck or air is lost to their suits. The potential use for anything water related seems extremely worthwhile.
Conclusion
In the end, this is an amazing medical advancement and I cant help but recall the movie the Abyss when they took the pill, their helmets filled with air, and they were told they can breathe the water. Well what if they really couldn’t “breathe” water” but since the urge to breathe is natural, that must take place… even if you’re not breathing air per se. But your body was provided with enough oxygen for a time period by taking a pill. It’s just goes to show that anything, absolutely anything that can be thought up, can potentially one day become reality. Thank you scientists, for reminding me that people and their ingenuity are nothing short of awesome.
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I read the page just fine.
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It does affect mobile sites though – when you zoom in the share bar overlaps the text.
Toxic gasses are still going to kill, whether one has oxygen or not. But yea, the potential uses could be very interesting.
I presumed it meant some sort of mask that completely inhibited the intake or exposure to such gases.
If one had such a mask the then there is no need for the oxygenation. There is a common misunderstanding among many that death by “toxic gasses” mean “depravation of oxygen”. I suspect the author has confused the two, melding them both into a “death by breathing”.
Why would you breath in the gas if you didn’t need to breath? I understand most toxic gases affect your other orifices as well, but so long as it’s not entering your bloodstream you should be fine. It would be like holding your breath for 20 minutes.
I’ll assume you are being ignored by the poster you had replied to due to a seemingly severe lack of understanding so I will reply instead. Toxic substances are formed within your body as part of cellular respiration and need to be expelled, think about it.. you can only exhale if you inhale first. Not only is this impossible underwater, but even if you used a mask, it would essentially need to mimic atmospheric conditions in which case you just have a breathing tank and mask.. and dont need the injection any more at all.
Sorry to go to such lengths, it’s just bothersome that people are so misinformed and easily hyped and sold.
Your body produces carbon dioxide (CO2) as you expend energy with any activity. Usually, you breathe that CO2 out via your lungs. If you don’t breathe out, you get CO2 poisoning which is that painful feeling in your lungs when you try to hold your breath.
Unless the CO2 could be dissolved into the lipid droplets after respiration, then yes, there would be no point to the treatment other than to supply a person with oxygen when they can’t get it normally. I am interested in what the actual composition of the drug is, so that we might get an idea of what may eventually get pumped into our systems.
If there was a mask that completely inhibited toxic gas exposure by cutting off all air supply, and not in turn connected to a alternate air supply then you would obviously need the oxygenation to live. Think man, think.
Please see my reply to above poster, Mr. Thompson is correct in his logic and has a great point.
Yea, obviously. You can have a mask that parcels air out, as supplied by you, without letting air in….
You can also have molecules inside the lipids that break down CO2 back into O2 to maximize air usage.
That’s just not how it works. The common misconception is that deprivation of oxygen kills people. The truth is, CO2 poisoning (the build-up of carbon dioxide when you cannot/are not exhaling) kills a person faster than they can run out of oxygen. There is enough oxygen in an average persons blood stream to supply enough oxygen for quite some time. So you can “inject” all the oxygen you want into someone’s veins, but if they are not able to exhale, they are still going to die.
I’m sure that’s one of the primary reasons there’s only a 30 minute window.
yea you’re probably right. hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in our blood and thereby makes use of it, has a higher affinity for a lot of other things before oxygen (e.g. carbon monoxide); so even if oxygen is available, one is probably more at risk for getting poisoned by toxin inhalation.
Even with this oxygen molecule in the blood there is still the problem of suppressing the involuntary respiratory reflex.
my first thought! the body will probably still go into a panic drowning mode when breath is being held, even if the blood doesn’t chemically need an oxygen infusion. so the ‘lifestyle change’ stuff is kind of nonsense. still, sounds like it could be lifesaving in surgical situations!
Respiratory drive is triggered by a threshold level of CO2 in the brain stem, not by a lack of O2. Except for chronic COPD patients, who have a hypoxic drive and respond to low levels of O2.
No hypoxic drive, old myth. High co2 buffering Co2 stored as NaHco3 (bluebloater) that liberates with oxygen. Co2 is the only reason we breath and the only drive. If oxygen is low you just go out. (ask the airlines)When you work hard your heart rate goes up to supply oxygen to your muscles, then your muscles produce co2 that make you breath hard.
If the lungs are not working then the person will die instead from the buildup of CO2, which is produced from metabolising this oxygen. That said, I’m sure this will be put to some good use sometime in the future.
AKA Carbon Dioxide. The patient will blow up like a balloon. Gases going in, and nothing going out isn’t going to save anyone’s life. I don’t think their clever plan will work as well as they hoped.
Where does the CO2 go?
That is indeed a good reflection. The urge and reflex to breathe is primarily regulated by the level of CO2, not O2, meaning they would have a hyperactive reflex as the CO2 rises. Even if they could ignore this drive they would develop hypercapnia and all its effects. I think the author made a mistake.
That is probably where the “up to 30 min after respiratory failure” comes in…
I think the author just doesn’t quite understand the respiratory process
Totally agree. While it may work in the medical setting where there is no harm in breathing (because your lungs are already filled with fluid) this will not work well for diving. The urge to breathe is primarily regulated by CO2 levels not O2 so this would not work.
Presumably you’d combine this with hyperventilation or something.
I’m not sure how long one can survive hypercapnia due to lack of breathing, though. Hopefully the answer is “longer than you can survive without oxygen” because that would make this useful.
With chronic patients, this could maybe be rationed using intravenous drip for long term for various reasons. When the patient has cardiovascular disease, this could help the brains to get oxygen during/after a stroke, maybe.
For sports, this seems like doping.
Future performance enhancing drug to overcome diminished lung capacity…..
http://xkcd.com/1173/
“A team of scientists at the Boston Children’s Hospital have invented what is being considered one the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent years.” Really? By whom?
Does it matter? This kind of thing is huge.
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This technology could, in fact, be lifesaving when used in a case where the pt’s airway is obstructed, or their ability to breath on their own is otherwise compromised. The “military” and “private sector” examples given above, however, seem to show a gross misunderstanding of how respiration actually works. In addition to adding oxygen to the bloodstream (through inhaling), people also need to eliminate carbon dioxide (by exhaling). Breathing is, in and of itself, an involuntary reflex. Regardless of the presence of oxygen in your bloodstream, your lungs will continue to try and expand and contract. Think of the pressure/bursting sensation you sometimes get while holding your breath. That wouldn’t go away simply because a Navy SEAL had injected some oxygen microparticles. This technology wouldn’t necessarily prevent a person from drowning, but it may help to prevent some of the damage that can occur to the brain and other tissues…the risk of inhaling water would remain present, and great care would have to be taken in the case of a near-drowning to prevent the lung infections that can come along with the aspiration of water and other substances.
Definitely a promising technology, but it’s important to have our fact straight before we go touting numerous advantages.
This could be the first step. Next will be the ones you addressed here. Technology keeps on evolving and adapting to various needs
THANK YOU for putting the hammer down on the misinformation. or some of it at least. and next please advise that nerve agents affect acetylcholine receptors and have nothing to do with oxygen. thank you.
After watching a very dear friend of mine die from the effects of cystic fibrosis, I cant help but think this tech could have aided him in his last days. You seem well informed and I am interested on your views on CF and this tech.
Dear Allison,
You have some great points here but I am going to add a little more. I am a medical student and a free diver. You are correct that breathing is an unconscious reflex, however, higher cortical processes allow for conscious overwriting of such reflexes and that is why we are able to hold our breath even to the point of passing out. Moreover, most cases of water inhalation occur due to the fact that the individuals are gasping for air (oxygen) underwater, so if one could eliminate this need, one can withhold inhalation underwater. Exhalation for most parts will not cause the lungs to fill with water . Exhaling underwater is a technique used widely in apnea to lower the blood CO2 and prevent acidosis. Also, people drown because the oxygen supply to their brain gets cut off due to the lack of oxygen availability in the blood stream and this technology can prevent that. So, in short this technology can and will prevent people from drowning. As for the navy seals and other underwater teams are concerned, it would be a great technology because it would eliminate the need to carry heavy and large equipment and would allow for more maneuverability. So, since it eliminates need to inhale air, and since exhalation can be done underwater, it eliminates the need to resurface the water for a long period of time which can allow for many new underwater discoveries and/or covert operations.
Actually, breathing is caused by the need to expire Co2. If there was a way to eliminate co2, then you wouldn’t need to breath
Excellent points, Allison. Thanks!
(How on earth I could forget the CO2)
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Fairly poor journalism and atrocious spelling.
Heh, sorry, but you even missed the information, that on the movie Abyss, the “breathable water” was real.
Not the actor “breathed” it, but even the rat shown in the scene some minutes before the special suit takes place was a _real shot_ without any special effect.
And yep, the rat survived.
Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
and here: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/06/movies/film-the-abyss-a-foray-into-deep-waters.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm
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well heres to the beginning of the zombie outbreak… lol
there is always a tin line between a genius an insanity every one doubted the right brothers before the invention of aircraft thinking they were mad, at the end they became genius inventing the airplane, what makes the difference is defying the general opinion cloning, nanotechnology, holograms,solar technology,gprs technology,internet and radio technology, flex television,space travel voodoos, black magic pushing assistance, to the limit, taming of snakes by the Indians with flute, is enough reason for us not to doubt the potentials of human abilities with the way humans are going please let us not underestimate it because most peoples creativity and technological abilities starts from where others stops
Ship sinking, people in a panic, crazy guy with a gun yelling at me he is going to save me by shooting me – good times!
look, if you can’t punctuate or be grammatically correct, don’t investigate important issues
Star Trek’s Tri-Ox Compound?
So The Abyss wasn’t a sci-fi film but a documentary after all!
Yep…no pill either unless it happened when I went to have a smoke
and to make sure… like the only toronto SAR survivors …my lung mucous was in tip top olympic athlete form from doing so
I know it would work for me and its a great advancement no matter what anyone says
And these with this indoctrinated factory education with their grammar phobias make me howl with laughter and I would probably take two shots to stick around to watch them drown refusing the shot cause the instructions were written with out a period hahhahaha
The thought also occurred to me…that some should not be given something to extend their stay here actually …….not even their CO2
Hhahah
Yeah and dont bother eh….save it for some one who may actually care
Anyone in certain circumstances and not just passed out …can stop breathing in an out ..been there done that..some here just cant visualize the motivations well enough obviously
Cheers
great Invention, we can save too many life
This is quite interesting,,but unbelievable
Perhaps you should go watch ‘The Abyss’ again and actually pay attention this time. Your comment about taking a pill and breathing water… ridiculous.
Don’t hold your breath though…. hehe get it? oh nevermind.
My 5 year old dreams have come true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqSkY4vtVY
Could this also be injected in tumors, because tumors can’t deal with oxygen!
What? Tumors are cells growing out of control. They grow much faster and therefore need far more resources (oxygen among the prime resources). It’s like throwing an oxygen tank into a fire.
I believe you may be thinking of “increasing oxygen supply to the cells to increase efficacy in chemotherapy delivery” but tumors definitely don’t “not like” oxygen…
Extremely good information over here. Hope to read more such eye -openers in the near future
How well does the body get rid of CO2 while getting this intravenous oxygen?
The only question I have from a NREMT-Intermediate standing is when the effects wear off from the pill or IV medication, how does the body kick back into normal respiratory function since the body has become dependent on not breathing for more then 30 min? cause my friends and I in EMT school used to take a BVM and breath for the person that is conscious, instead of them breathing themselves. so the BVM acted as a outside lung. After we took the BVM away the body naturally started normal respiratory function on its own again. but we didn’t do that for 30 mins. In otherwords, how do we know that after the body has been not breathing for 30 mins, that the person don’t have to be placed under a ventilator until they are winged off of it?
So perhaps figure a way to wrap the oxygen in a CO2-eating substance? That would be a neat trick. Deep freedivers have done a lot of work on related issues. But as a tool for divers it remains to be seen what advantages this tech would have over more traditional tech in terms of cost, reliability, etc. Cave divers would love it as a compact backup, methinks.
Examples of a “CO2″ eating substance or organism are plants. Plants take in CO2, break up the molecule. They keep the Carbon which they use to build the cells in their “bodies”. Then they release the oxygen back to our air. You can break it up but then the body would be full of carbon.
Good to see the story, but this one has errors and some fanciful projections (and also misrepresents THE ABYSS and the actual technology behind it). Science articles are best written by actual science journalists. Here are two more reliable sources, plus the original paper:
http://www.nature.com/news/rabbits-kept-alive-by-oxygen-injections-1.10899
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/19/161431078/tiny-bubbles-injectable-oxygen-foam-tested-for-emergency-care
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88
Yes, thank you for pointing out the misunderstanding and inaccurate retelling of The Abyss.
Thanks for providing the citations Glenn!
Where did the 30 mins come from? The original article only ever mentions 15 minutes. http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/140/140ra88.full
After injecting their microparticles in mice, the researchers saw that the While this feat is extraordinary, Kheir noted the microparticles should only be administered for a limited period of time – between 15 and 30 minutes.
“We limited it to 15 minutes for a reason,” Kheir said. “The particles don’t really exchange carbon dioxide at all. Carbon dioxide is normally carried in the plasma. Most patients don’t die from high carbon dioxide, but they definitely die from low oxygen. It’s only intended to stabilize patients for a period of time while another procedure is being done.”
That’s an excerpt from a fox article.
I guess you forgot to mention potential future uses in sports… with the interesting aspect that if the substance dissolves after 30 mins or so, it would be untraceable.
This would allow someone to survive execution in the tradition of the blood eagle…
The writer needs to watch “The Abyss” again. The divers do not take a pill and then breathe the water. Their helmets are filled with liquified oxygen which they can “breathe” – like an unborn child “brathing” in its mother’s womb. The context of the movie was – the oxygen had to be liquified to avoid ocean crushing the persons air filled cells as they decended into the abyss. The potential for this discovery is exciting – but is not enough to solve other issues encountered in drowning.
The fetus does not breath it gets its oxygen via the umbilical. Cord and gets rid of CO2. The same way.
If you take 2 shots, will it last an hour? Will 3 shots last 90 minutes?
no that would be the like breathing heavily and geting light headed but in the case of the injection you wouldnt be able to hold you breath to prevent you from being knocked out or possibly evin killed by over oxigenation
If your blood was to be oxygenated by these particles, would your need to physically take breaths turn off?
For example, if I were to just hold my breath right now the involuntary compulsion to take a breath would build and build until I gave in and took a breath. But, if your blood is already oxygenated, does this reaction disappear?
No, it is primarily the partial pressure of CO2 in your blood which installs a compulsion to breathe.
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“I cant help but recall the movie the Abyss when they took the pill, their helmets filled with air, and they were told they can breathe the water. ”
I think what you mean is that you can’t quite recall the movie The Abyss.
Nobody takes a pill, and nobody breathes water. They are breathing oxygenated fluorocarbon liquid. My understanding is that this is actually possible for humans, but painful and unpleasant. The rat you see submersed in fluid in the film is not a special effects shot; it is actually breathing real OFC.
You need to rewatch the Abyss…
Like Aquaman?
After injecting their microparticles in mice, the researchers saw that the animals’ blood-oxygen levels became normal within seconds. To test how their microparticles fared in a more dangerous scenario, Kheir and his colleagues completely blocked the mice’s tracheas and immediately injected the particles. The mice stayed alive for 15 minutes without taking a single breath.
While this feat is extraordinary, Kheir noted the microparticles should only be administered for a limited period of time – between 15 and 30 minutes.
“We limited it to 15 minutes for a reason,” Kheir said. “The particles don’t really exchange carbon dioxide at all. Carbon dioxide is normally carried in the plasma. Most patients don’t die from high carbon dioxide, but they definitely die from low oxygen. It’s only intended to stabilize patients for a period of time while another procedure is being done.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/29/newly-developed-oxygen-particles-injected-into-blood-could-save-lives/#ixzz2SGp1iO4P
The research is published in the June issue of Science Translational Medicine.
That’s just for the concerns about the CO2 issue. The injection needs to be administered continiously thought but the author wasn’t wrong. You could stay alive for 15 or 20 minutes with blocked tracheas according to this. Althought it seems kind of dangerous but this is still fairly new.
Where are the citations? There is no evidence for such a claim in this article.
That is not what happened in the movie Abyss. There was no pill involved. They actually breatehed in through their lungs an super-oxygenated liquid that filled thier lings from a tank of the liquid on their back. And its real, not science fiction. Since there is no oxygen gas in their lungs, but instead a liquid, the divers don’t feel the atmodpheric stesses at great depths that they would otherwise. Thus they are able to breath adn dive to greater depths.
Wouldn’t this be able to save lung cancer patients.
Even if your blood is oxygenated, one still needs to exhale, otherwise waste products (carbon dioxide) will build up in the blood and prove fatal. “Exhaled air is rich in carbon dioxide, a waste product of cellular respiration during the production of energy, which is stored as ATP.”
I could see mountain climbers using this. No more littering Everest with oxygen tanks…
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I’m pretty sure Kevin Costner invented this already in 1995…
The article explains how they overcame gas embolism but not lipid embolism, how are they going to make the big clumps oil injected not get stuck in your lungs and kill you?
This article needs a source.
why not go read it and if you really want to know try the contact person.
http://childrenshospital.org/newsroom/Site1339/mainpageS1339P892.html
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Amazing! how can we use a medical breakthrough to save lives yet hand it over to the military to ruin scores more! Oh so humane! “”"I wonder why people hate us?”"”
Hmm. Very interesting question on how to get rid of CO2. Here is a thought, but wouldn’t a second intravenous line of Sodium Bicarbonate do the job to combat hypercarbia? Just like how health care professionals would do for patients in cardiopulmonary arrest who are acidotic.
Thank you very much for humanity as is a incredible advance discovery. I’m looking for a quick release and will save many life. Also will be a great help to improve life and in many area like recreational snookering will allowed much more pleasure.
You could use this miracle of technology in an emergency if your wife tried to strangle you in your sleep. Obviously you would need to preempt the situation and take your injection in good time in readiness for the attack, but the tell tale signs of a female’s impending assassination attempt are temerarious and indubitable to a watchful victim and her savage intentions wholly predictable. After 20 min of violent but futile throttling, wifey would get a torturous build up of lactic acid in her hands that would force her to desist with her murderous activity. Bewildered and exhausted she would slump back onto the bed, whence you could then take retaliatory action and pail her round the head with an iron skillet. Fair’s fair.
Hmm, I like the sound of this stuff more and more!
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DUH! space travel HELLO!!!!!!
The first thing I thought when I saw this was that it sure would be nice to have one of these around when I had an asthma attack and couldn’t get to oxygen quick enough. Even when you do it’s hard to get oxygenated fast enough. So many hours spent gasping for breath you get don’t get tired of breathing you get tired of trying to…
You seem to forget what was the real scenario in The Abbyss: their helmets as well as whole body suits has been filled with synthesized amniotic fluid.
Awsome discovery. Sounds like something that could save a lot of lives.
I could see application where there is chemical biological attack.
Science 1 – 0 Religion
I’m impressed by how smart the readers of this post are!
However, what if the “person” in question is a dragon and exhales fire? Does that change things?
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I don’t think that this is legit for two reasons. One, there would be no expulsion of toxic gas that is produced by your body and two, an injection of gas into your bloodstream is likely to cause a heart attack.
The article is very interesting, but techwench is apparently in desperate need of a copy editor. I am available for hire.
Yeah, the “potential uses” section on this is pretty farfetched. It doesn’t take into consideration at all how our bodies would react on a physiological level. Yes, you may oxygenate the blood, which can be vital in emergency situations for supplying oxygen to organs such as the brain and what not. But, our body still produces toxic chemicals, namely, CO2. CO2 is the primary stimulant for breathing in the first place. It’s almost all entirely regulated by the Medulla which detects pH changes in our blood based on the concentration of CO2. So we may be injected additional oxygen into the blood, but the additional CO2 that is being produced from cellular respiration has absolutely no where to go. This is why we learn that, even if we wanted to “Throw a tantrum as a child” and say we’re going to “Hold our breath until we die.” It’s quite impossible because once we start holding our breath, that CO2 is going to start building up and building up, and eventually our medulla is going to jump in and say “What the heck are you doing… breathe you idiot!”
And as simple as one might want to say “Oh, well then just breathe out.” It’s not that simple either, because there is no pressure gradient. Once you expel all the air from your lungs, you can’t expel any further. Injecting oxygen into your blood stream is going to do absolutely nothing in terms of filling our lungs back up with air.
The only place I can see this being remotely viable in it’s current format, would be to aid in rescue attempts of people that have stopped breathing and need CPR, and only at the level of making it easier for rescue workers not having to perform breathing for the person, they can focus on chest compression and vital monitoring.
What about as a sport performance enhancer? Could this theoretically be used by endurance athletes?
Hmmm…one step closer to cyberized bodies..
imagine…no “heart”, no “lung”, no internal organs…just a mechanical filtration system to supply the brain with nutrients and oxygen and filter wastes…
This is seriously important.
It’s importance can’t be over emphasised.
Can this article be taking to another website? I will be glad if am giving the privilege to do so.
Maybe the co2 issue could be addressed with a similar drug to bind with C02 in a way that could be removed from the body by the kidneys or by other waste removal systems. This seems rather implausible to me. Or by a miniaturized machine similar to a dialysis machine to scrub the Co2 from the blood. This idea also seems pretty implausible, but it is a thought.
Amazing advancements. Definitely great technology for military/medical/personal, like they spoke of.
Can’t help but think that this is going to become the new steroids for professional swimmers if they ever get ahold of it….
“The microparticles can keep an object alive for up to 30 min after respiratory failure.”
OK, I have nothing against objects, but when will they try this on animals and people?
“If a boat was to begin to sink, you could shoot yourself as the boat is going down to ensure you aren’t drowned in the under current of the sinking vessel.”
Yes, shooting oneself would save that person from the drowning experience, but I thought you were talking about oxygenated particles rather than bullets?
is it the CHIP?
very innovative technology! hope people in need get the benefits
what about using this for space travel or on mars.
The question is, is when are they going to give a home kit, or a kit for school. Have you ever read stories of how it took the ems 15 minutes to get somewhere to pick someone up even after 911 was called. This could save a life a home to not just in the hospital. Does anyone know if this is a normal procedure now they are conducting?