SHOOT: When you get swine flu your lungs can fill with fluid and effectively you drown in your own lung fluid. This technique creates a temporary artifical lung. Errr...if I ever get H1N1 in a bad way and suffer a cytokine type effect, please make sure I get this procedure. Yes, I'm talking to YOU. Make sure it happens.
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu patients whose damaged
lungs make them unable to breathe may have a better chance of
survival if they get an artificial lung technique that’s twice
as expensive as standard treatment, researchers said. Doctors in the U.K. compared a procedure that pumps blood
through an artificial lung rather than using mechanical
ventilation, when air is blown into the lungs at high pressure.
Their study found that 63 percent of the patients in respiratory
failure who were selected for the lung bypass technique survived
for at least six months without disability, compared with 47
percent assigned to receive conventional ventilation. The finding, reported today in the medical journal Lancet,
suggests the bypass equipment made by companies including
Medtronic Inc. could rescue more severe swine flu cases. In
Australia’s New South Wales state, 1 in 7 patients critically
ill with the new H1N1 strain received the procedure, known as
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
clipped from www.bloomberg.com
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