Small is wearable for artificial lungs

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3118, 2017, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An artificial lung small enough to be carried in a backpack has been shown to work in sheep. It's one of several devices that could transform the lives of people whose lungs are failing, and who are completely dependent on large machines. William Federspiel of the University of Pittsburgh and his team has developed a device that combines both pump and gas exchanger. It can be carried in a backpack and would connect to the patient's neck via a short tube. Experiments in four sheep show that the device could fully oxygenate the animals' blood for 6 hours. Federspiel says that they have since demonstrated that it works for five days.