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Incredible medical breakthrough allows doctors to inject oxygen into the bloodstreams of people who can't breathe

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http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/incredible_medical_brea... io9.com - In a monumental breakthrough with far ranging implications, cardiologists at the Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts have kept suffocating rabbits alive for 15 minutes with injections of oxygen-filled microparticles.

Breathing are overrated :)

What would you do with this when and if it is commercially available?

I think I would use it for my migraines.

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Interesting. I could see this being used in resuscitation attempts, as a way of helping cells to get o2 more effectively, along with assisted ventilations and compressions. It would do well for successfully resuscitated patients, keeping their ph at better level, and increase the time resusitation attempts go for. But it will be quite some time before this enters actual usage in the field. And it's not a replacement for respirations.

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I don't anitcipate we'll be able to run down and buy them at a local walmart. though I can see a syringe full being a part of some kind of emergency kit available for those "high risk" indiividuals..like divers and climbers..by Rx, like a bee sting kit. and possibly becoming a part of emergency equipment on ambulances and such. guess we'll have to wait and see. I thin it's pretty amazing.

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How long before Big Pharma owns the rights to the process for making these oxygen-filled microparticles?

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Yes, but will this take all fun out of auto-erotic asphyxiation?

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Super.

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But normally if you take a syringe, fill it up with air and inject into someone, they die.

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Those POOR rabbits. I guess at least this time, they survived.

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