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The lungs you were born with are not necessary to sustain your life:
In what is believed to be the first procedure of its kind in the world, doctors in Canada have saved a young mother's life by resorting to a radical solution – they removed her lungs for six days while she waited for a transplant. In April, Melissa Benoit arrived at a Toronto hospital with a severe lung infection. Doctors soon realised that Benoit, who had been born with cystic fibrosis, had just hours to live, leading them to consider the unprecedented approach.
[...] In mid-April, a team of 13 began a nine-hour surgery to remove Benoit's lungs. Filled with mucous, each lung was swollen and as hard as a football, said Keshavjee. "Technically, it was difficult to get them out of her chest." Hours later, her condition began to dramatically improve. "And literally within minutes – it was probably around 20 minutes after having taken those infected lungs out – her blood pressure normalised, and they could remove all the blood-pressure-supporting drugs and just leave her on the pumps that were providing the circulation," Keshavjee told the Canadian Press.
A small artificial lung was connected to Benoit's heart, while other devices oxygenated and circulated her blood. As they waited for replacement lungs to become available, doctors wondered how long she could be supported like this. "We didn't know if we'd get [them] in one day or one month," said Keshavjee. Six days later a pair of donor lungs became available and Benoit underwent a successful lung transplant.
Also at BBC.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:42PM
Consider being an organ donor. Please.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:32PM
This is true. Also think about this. Automated vehicles are coming. Where do most organ donations come from?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 01 2017, @09:00PM
Look around. Organs will probably be grown from scratch or inside chimera pigs or something. It might even happen before half of the vehicles on the road are automated.
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday February 01 2017, @11:49PM
Is okay, the rich will have right-of-way over pedestrians and cyclists.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @12:59PM
Chinese prisoners?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:30AM
The organs in my body could provide millions of dollars for medical personal and hospitals. (often "handling fees" to avoid legal trouble for selling my organs) My family wouldn't see a damn cent of that. This strikes me as completely unfair exploitation of my death at a time when my family is greatly in need.
I suppose if my wife gets offered a million-dollar "handling fee" to roll my bed across the room for "donation", she should take it.
(Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:23AM
So, you are worth millions of dollars in organs, and your wife stands to get the lot if you "accidentally" die. WCPGW?