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Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections

Posted by samzenpus on from the I've-been-using-my-lungs-like-a-sucker dept.

ananyo writes "Rabbits with blocked windpipes have been kept alive for up to 15 minutes without a single breath, after researchers injected oxygen-filled microparticles into the animals' blood. Oxygenating the blood by bypassing the lungs in this way could save the lives of people with impaired breathing or obstructed airways (abstract). In the past, doctors have tried to treat low levels of oxygen in the blood, or hypoxaemia, and related conditions such as cyanosis, by injecting free oxygen gas directly into the bloodstream. But oxygen injected in this way can accumulate into larger bubbles and form potentially lethal blockages."

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  1. One step closer by alexbgreat · · Score: 5, Funny

    And with this...we're one step closer to the zombie apocalypse.

    1. Re:One step closer by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Jesus, they could have let him finish off first.

      One last hooray, if you will.

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  2. So what? by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections

    So what? I have a pet rabbit that I can keep alive with regular oxygen particles.

    And I don't even have to inject them or anything. They just go into the holes in his face.

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  3. This will change the Tour de France forever by Teresita · · Score: 5, Funny

    But will Lance Armstrong submit to a blood test for oxygen microparticles?

  4. Re:they forgot something by Auroch · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't think they -forgot- that, I think they just focused on one step at a time.

    Gee Karl, did you forget to remove the CO2 from my kid's pet rabbit? It went all floppy after I gave it back to him.

    Sorry Stan, It must have slipped my mind. Good for science, though!

    You're right Karl, look at me still talking when there's science to be done.

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  5. COME ON COHAAGEN by mozumder · · Score: 1, Funny

    GIVE THESE RABBITS AIR

  6. Obviously so... by RawsonDR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, the rabbits were the subject of the experiment. The mice were being choked to pass the time. It's just what these researchers do.

  7. Re:they forgot something by RivenAleem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't they just shake them to get the dissolved CO2 out? Works for a bottle of coke. What if they gave the rabbit a Mentos?