A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.
When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...
The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.
The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.
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