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Originally Posted by Anom Alley ↗

Yet another awesome post, Kelly.
Advances in medicine and science are terrific, I myself wouldn't be alive without many of them. (I was born at 24 weeks gestation almost 33 years ago. I weighed 1lb 11oz and was 13 inches long.) Am very proud to say I flipped Death the finger more than once

My son was born at 26 weeks and weighed 2lb

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Now that is some cool shit, I would love to see it beat.

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Originally Posted by Sharon. ↗

That's really cool!

Wonder if other organs could be preserved longer too?

This was developed at the hospital I work at, a few years back. It changed everything when it comes to dealing with lung transplants.
Now you can use lungs that a few years back would have been deemed unusable, and the ones chosen can be kept healthy for a much longer time period.

"New techniques for increasing lung transplantation frequency
Principal investigator; Steen, Stig, Professor, MD/PhD

Clinical speciality: Thoracic surgery

Co-workers: Trygve Sjöberg, Associate professor

The worldwide shortage of organ donors results in limited possibilities to treat end stage pulmonary diseases. Twenty percent of the patients on the waiting list die before lung transplantation. It is possible to entirely overcome the shortage of lungs for transplantation by the use of organs from people how dies after failed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation or after reconditioning of rejected donor lungs. The prerequisite for NHBD is that the deseased has not been negative to organ donation and that the next of kin accept the procedure. A special recondition equippment developped by us, is needed to recondition lungs that primarily was rejected

To preserve the lungs in situ, cold Perfadex solution has to be flushed into the pleurae through thoracic drainage cannulas within 1 hour after declaration of death. The responsible physician shall inform the next of kin about the death, the possibility of organ donation and that immediate cooling of the lungs is necessary. If the next of kin is not negative to the procedure, cooling in situ is initiated. When this is compleated, donation (explantation of organs) can be discussed during several hours. If donation is accepted the heart-lung block will be extirpated and brought to Lund University Hospital. Lungs that is rejected as donor lungs will be brought to Lund for reconditioning. The lung function will be tested ex vivo by means of a lung evaluation solution mixed with red blood cells using a special lung perfusion machine. If the lung function is good and no other contraindications are found, the selected recipient will be brought to the hospital for transplantation.

Ambulance personnel, staffs at emergency care unit, internal medicine and cardiology units at the University Hospital of Lund and six remote hospitals have so far been trained for NHBD. The goal is to educate personnel at all hospitals and ambulances in Sweden."