Category: respiratory
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Robotic device could make intubation faster and easier for first responders, small study suggests
Robotic device could make intubation faster and easier for first responders, small study suggests It’s a long-standing challenge for first responders: Opening the airways of critically injured patients struggling to breathe often takes multiple attempts, costing crucial seconds. The problem caught David Haggerty’s attention when he was a graduate student, and he set out to…
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Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time
Gene-edited pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead patient for first time In a milestone for the newly resurgent field of xenotransplantation, a 39-year-old brain-dead person in China has become the first human to receive a lung from a pig. With consent from the person’s family, researchers took the organ from a CRISPR’d pig, trimmed it,…