Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If
Injected, Allows You To Live Without
Breathing
New Medical Discovery
A team of scientists at the Boston
Children’s Hospital have invented what is
being considered one the greatest medical
breakthroughs in recent years. They have
designed a microparticle that can be
injected into a person’s bloodstream that
can quickly oxygenate their blood.This will
even work if the ability to breathe has
been restricted, or even cut off entirely.
This finding has the potential to save
millions of lives every year. The
microparticles can keep an object alive for
up to 30 min after respiratory failure. This
is accomplished through an injection into
the patients’ veins. Once injected, the
microparticles can oxygenate the blood to
near normal levels. This has countless
potential uses as it allows life to continue
when oxygen is needed but unavailable.
For medical personnel, this is just enough
time to avoid risking a heart attack or
permanent brain injury when oxygen is
restricted or cut off to patients.
Dr. John Kheir, who first began the study,
works in the Boston Children’s Hospital
Department of Cardiology. He found
inspiration for the drug in 2006, when he
was treating a girl in the ICU who had a
sever case of pneumonia. At the time, the
girl didn’t have a breathing tube, when at
the time she suffered from a pulmonary
hemorrhage. This means her lungs had
begin to fill up with blood, and she finally
went into cardiac arrest. It took doctors
about 25 minutes to remove enough blood
from her lungs to allow her to breath.
Though, the girl’s brain was severely
injured due to being deprived of oxygen for
that long and she eventually died