US EditionArtificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant
A total artificial lung system sustained a 33-year-old patient with antibiotic-resistant lung infection for 48 hours before successful double-lung transplantation, surgeons report.
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Surgeons Kept a Man Alive With No Lungs For 48 Hours. Here's How.
In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach that could be used again for selected patients.
A surgical team at Northwestern University in the United States achieved a remarkable medical feat by preserving the life of a man who was seriously ill for 48 hours when he no longer had any lung. The patient was waiting for a double lung transplant, made possible thanks to an innovative total artificial lung system.This radical approach could now ... Read more The article A patient kept alive without lungs for two days thanks to a medical prow…
Some medical actions seem inconceivable. Removing the two lungs of a patient living is part of it. Without them, the heart no longer holds, the body collapses. Yet, a man survived two days thanks to a system of artificial lungs specially designed for him. Why removing both lungs normally condemns a patient In the case of a patient suffering from a serious respiratory infection, removing both lungs is not an option envisaged. It is a condemnation…
An adult patient survived two full days without lungs thanks to an extracorporeal device that acted as an artificial lung. The intervention allowed the patient to stabilize and successfully perform a bilateral transplant, opening up new avenues to treat irreversible lung damage.
-> A 33-year-old man managed to stay alive for 48 hours without lungs thanks to an artificial support system developed at Northwestern Medicine Hospital in the United States. The procedure allowed both lungs to be removed from a severe infection and to keep the patient with oxygenation and circulation stable until a double transplant was performed, according to a study published in the scientific journal Med.
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