This article shows how we are developing artificial lungs that could be used in place of a lung transplant. Sounds good since the article also says that 1 in 7 of us have at least 1 of 40 lung diseases.
I think the sooner we get these going the better. My lungs could do with one, or two, of these because every time I’m running around or anything I get out of breath.
Now the only part I don’t understand is the emphasis that people are having on the development of this system. ‘Several years away from being used even in trials’ ‘it could take many years before the device is available’ etc. Now why is that? It’s not like we are actually performing a complex bit of surgery like a transplant. The only work required on the subject is to put in some valves for blood out and blood in.
We could then put the trial models in as many people as we want and if they do nothing. No harm done at all. The artificial lung will supplement their existing lung and anyone requiring one would get an immediate boost. Must be better than lying in bed sucking on an oxygen bottle all day. I bet there will be lots of volunteers.
Is it me or are we just too cautious when it comes to these things even things that look, albeit to my simple mind, to be low risk?
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004)
Replacement lungs
This article shows how we are developing artificial lungs that could be used in place of a lung transplant. Sounds good since the article also says that 1 in 7 of us have at least 1 of 40 lung diseases.
I think the sooner we get these going the better. My lungs could do with one, or two, of these because every time I’m running around or anything I get out of breath.
Now the only part I don’t understand is the emphasis that people are having on the development of this system. ‘Several years away from being used even in trials’ ‘it could take many years before the device is available’ etc. Now why is that? It’s not like we are actually performing a complex bit of surgery like a transplant. The only work required on the subject is to put in some valves for blood out and blood in.
We could then put the trial models in as many people as we want and if they do nothing. No harm done at all. The artificial lung will supplement their existing lung and anyone requiring one would get an immediate boost. Must be better than lying in bed sucking on an oxygen bottle all day. I bet there will be lots of volunteers.
Is it me or are we just too cautious when it comes to these things even things that look, albeit to my simple mind, to be low risk?