Device Keeps Lungs Breathing Outside the Body 74
Al writes "A new system that keeps lungs breathing outside the body could improve the chances of a successful transplant. The Toronto XVIVO Lung Perfusion System, developed at Toronto General Hospital, can keep a pair of human lungs slowly breathing inside a glass dome attached to a ventilator, pump, and filters. The lungs are maintained at normal body temperature of 37 C and perfused with a bloodless solution that contains nutrients, proteins, and oxygen. The organs can be kept alive in the machine for up to 12 hours while surgeons assess function and repair them. See a video of the system keeping a pair of lungs alive."
Getting them over with. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad they're breathing new life into transplant technology.
The medical community did well but they shouldn't go getting all puffed up over this.
phew. There. I'm taking a karma hit for everybody who even considered making those jokes.
cool & creepy (Score:3, Funny)
While this is rather cool, I can't help thinking that,somehow, Vincent Price had a hand in the project.
I'm strangely aroused (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it's not the heaving of breasts that is so attractive about women. Perhaps it's something more primal, more core.
Watching the lungs inflate and deflate rhythmically makes me feel all funny inside.
Like I want to retch.
Krang (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Getting them over with. (Score:3, Funny)
The news media is just inflating this story to improve their ratings. Nothing to see here.
Re:That's unholy (Score:1, Funny)
Re:GOOD LORD!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Getting them over with. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I'm glad you achieved your aspiration.
Re:That's unholy (Score:4, Funny)
I think you have some issues. :)
And no Canadians are not stuck in the stone age. Only an idiot would think that.
You guys are stuck in the ice age