Whoa—This Guy Stayed Alive for 48 Hours Without Any Lungs
THE HUMAN BODY can only go without oxygen for 4 minutes before there’s irreversible brain damage. Death follows 4 to 6 minutes later. Yet one 33-year-old man stayed alive for 48 hours without either of his lungs. Surgeons devised an ingenious way to keep the man alive after removing his infected lungs. Documented in a …
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