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Oxygenated Micro-particle Injection
Cardiologist, John Kheir, a doctor at the Children's Hospital Boston in Boston, Massachusetts has discovered a medical breakthrough, to keep one "breathing" without having to breathe at all. The secret is an injection of oxygen gas-filled microparticles. Each foam like injection contains about 50-90mL of pure oxygen gas that is injected directly into the vein. Once the oxygen has entered the bloodstream, oxygen then can be delivered to the vital organs throughout the body such as lungs, brain, and heart. Although, this method is not yet safe for humans, it is the start of a medical breakthrough that can one day save the lives of those that are in danger. Oxygen is so important to our bodies, that 2 minutes without it can lead to irreversible damage to our vital organs.

The microparticles in the injection contain an oxygen gas core surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer. Once they are injected into the blood stream, they quickly break down and deliver oxygen to the red blood cells throughout the body.

Kheir's lab results show that after a suffocating rabbit was injected with this medicine, it lived for an additional 15 minutes, showing very little damage to the organs. With this, doctors will be able to save patients lives when they are crunched for time. Not only does it benefit the doctors, but the patient will receive little to no damage to the organs. For example, doctors can inject this medicine into the patient while they instal a breathing tube. This will keep the patient oxygenated the whole time, keeping them safer and healthier.

Another example where this injection could be extremely useful, is using it when hooking one up to a heart-lung bypass machine. A heart-lung bypass machine is a machine that takes over the functions of the heart and lungs to help keep the blood flowing, so that, oxygen is still carried out to the brain and other organs. The only downfall to this machine is that it takes at least 20 minutes to hook up. Kheir knows this from hands on experience. A few years ago, Kheir was to operate on a 9 month year old girl whose lungs had failed due to pneumonia. Her lungs were filled up with blood and she could not obtain the oxygen she needed on her own. Kheir and his crew tried to hook up this young girl to the machine, but she had died before they could finish. This drove Kheir to find a faster method to deliver oxygen to the vital organs in the body. A few years later, Kheir discovered the beginning of this medical breakthrough.