Oxygen Particles breakthrough invention for medicine.

[RxBoy]

This invention will revolutionize anesthesia:

"The researchers started by creating tiny (4-micrometer-wide) air bubbles by filling a chamber with oxygen, a kind of molecule called phospholipids, and a fluid similar to blood plasma. They fired sound waves at the chamber so that the gas and fluids would mix. During that process, the fatty phospholipids encircled the oxygen gas—similarly to the bubbles that form when you shake up a bottle of oil and water mixture—and the phospholipid shells hold the oxygen in suspension. When mixed with blood, the oily bubbles readily give up their oxygen to the hungry red blood cells. "The chemistry basically does all the work," Kheir say."

No Lungs Required: Injected Oxygen to Keep Patients Alive - Popular Mechanics
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[IlDestriero]

That's just what we need, even more people with lipid filled blood. 😉
I'm guessing there will be some bad side effects, like liver failure. I guess it has promise.

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"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."

 

[periopdoc]

Bet the pancreas goes first.

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[urge]

Not going to happen in my lifetime.

 

[narcusprince]

My guess is platelet destruction and possible rbc fragmentation. Sounds awfully close to bubble oxygenators for cpb.

 

[countingdays]

My guess is platelet destruction and possible rbc fragmentation. Sounds awfully close to bubble oxygenators for cpb.

In what way would that be better than ECMO?

 

[narcusprince]

In what way would that be better than ECMO?

Does not sound like it would be. Maybe because the system lacks a membrane you could make it very small. Problem with ECMO on the long term is need for large cannula, maybe this is an early phase of a self-contained unit. I would still like to see the rbcs and platelets as you bubble in oxygen into solution.