Ein echtes künstliches Lungensystem hielt einen Mann zwei Tage lang am Leben, bis er eine Transplantation bekommen konnte | Das neue System versorgt sein Blut mit Sauerstoff und hält gleichzeitig den Blutfluss durch das Herz aufrecht
Artificial lungs kept a man alive until he could get a transplant
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>Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 hours with artificial lungs until he could get a transplant.
>Doctors crafted shunts, tubes and pumps into a system that oxygenated blood and supported blood flow through the heart, the team reports January 29 in *Med.* It is proof that [a true artificial lung](https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(25)00412-X) can keep a patient alive until donor organs are available, says Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
>In 2023, a 33-year-old man from St. Louis caught influenza B and his lungs began to deteriorate. He was hospitalized and got a second infection with *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* bacteria that were resistant to antibiotics. The infection spread to his blood. The dual infections and damage from overzealous immune reactions caused his lungs to fail.
>“He was not getting better,” Bharat says. “He was actively dying.”
[Read more here ](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/artificial-lungs-alive-days-transplant)and the [research article here](https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(25)00412-x).
>this video contains graphic content
Fascinating stuff. But never before had I thought this warning was an understatement.
If you’re like me and don’t like seeing the insides of people, don’t watch that video.
I was not ready for how graphic that was, even with the warning and even not being a squeamish person in the slightest
How is this different from V-V ECMO? We basically already have ICU bedside heart/lung machines.
Seeing this is from the USA however, I would be interested if the hospital bill is covered in a way or this guy is on the hook anyhow and has no life to live in another sense.