The doctors faced a dilemma: The patient’s lungs were fueling the infection, but he was too sick to undergo a transplant ...
A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...
The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.
Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.