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Living without lungs for six days saves mom's life [1]

Submitted by joeldunning [2] on Wed, 2017-01-25 13:50

In a bold and very challenging move, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital (TGH) removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without them for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant.

Source name: 
Toronto General Hospital
Resource link: 
http://www.uhn.ca/corporate/News/Pages/living_without_lungs_for_six_days_saves_m… [3]
Taxonomy: 
ECMO [4]
Subspecialty(ies): 
Thoracic [5]
Author(s): 
Dr. Shaf Keshavjee
Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference: 
Mechanical circulatory assistance [6]
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/living-without-lungs-six-days-saves-moms-life

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[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/living-without-lungs-six-days-saves-moms-life [2] https://www.ctsnet.org/home/joeldunning [3] http://www.uhn.ca/corporate/News/Pages/living_without_lungs_for_six_days_saves_mom_life.aspx?utm_campaign=UHN%20-%20Website&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1485297361 [4] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy/ecmo-0 [5] https://www.ctsnet.org/categories/thoracic [6] https://www.ctsnet.org/taxonomy2018/mechanical-circulatory-assistance