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Except FDA is suppost to approve new drugs within six months of the New Drug Application is filed. According to http://www.allp.com/drug_dev.htm/ "the average NDA review time for new molecular entities approved in 1992 was 29.9 months." What really is needed is a new schedule of drug testing for those who are in the last stages of terminal illness.

"They claim that the pants contain teflon, which is in a family of chemicals that can be absorbed through the skin. It is known that this same family of chemicals accumulates in the body, that most Americans have some level of this in their bodies, and that there is research to show that it damages immune systems in other animals."

Really? Because to be perfectly honest I think you're talking completely out your ass as an uninformed and fearmongering fool. It is obvious from your post that you are not a chemist and in fact have not even the most rudimentary understanding of chemistry. So what eeeevil "family of chemicals" is this you speak of? Polymers? Wow I guess I better stop drinking out of plastic bottles then. In fact I better go seal myself off from the world now since my body contains POLYsaccharide molecules like starch. Is it fluorocarbons that are so deadly "to our immune systems"? Huh, well I guess we can't use perflubron to save premature infants from suffocation. Sigh, oh well. Maybe its halogenated hydrocarbons in general that you deem the bane of humanity. Get rid of electronic fire extinguishing materials and any number of other halogenated polymers we use in every day existence. yeah. three cheers for mindless anti-intellectual pseudoscientific promulgations.

That's why I only breathe LiquiVent instead of that "air" stuff you common people breathe...

You're right. Not everything on the web is real. However, there is an occasional kernel of truth.

You're right. Not everything on the web is real. However, there is an occasional kernel of truth.

A similar technique has been used for cooling the whole body of a patient. This is done by letting the patient breathe a oxygen saturated liquid such as LiquiVent. Normally, when you apply liquid breathing, you pre-heat the liquid to body temperature, but in this case you could use a lower temperature. The total area of the lung alveoli is about 100 square meters. Compared to the area of the head (as used in the helmet approach), the area available for heat transfer is many times greater, which means that the cooling is done much faster.

Of course this technique is not useful in an ambulance, due to the fact that you have to apply local anasthetics to the lung in order to prevent the cough reflex when the liquid enters the lung/lungs. Also, you have to put the patient in a respirator, because breathing liquid is so taxing on the diaphragm muscles, that all your energy is spent on breathing - you can't do anything else.

A company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. makes a couple of cool products that would also help out in a situation like this. Oxygent is a blood substitute that transfers oxygen in the blood stream more efficiently. LiquiVent is an Oxygen rich liquid that they pump into your lungs that allows you to not have to breathe (like that mouse in the Movie Abyss).

A company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. makes a couple of cool products that would also help out in a situation like this. Oxygent is a blood substitute that transfers oxygen in the blood stream more efficiently. LiquiVent is an Oxygen rich liquid that they pump into your lungs that allows you to not have to breathe (like that mouse in the Movie Abyss).

A company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp. makes a couple of cool products that would also help out in a situation like this. Oxygent is a blood substitute that transfers oxygen in the blood stream more efficiently. LiquiVent is an Oxygen rich liquid that they pump into your lungs that allows you to not have to breathe (like that mouse in the Movie Abyss).