enteral ventilation

[ofg-1]

Although in the early testing phase, I am sure some enterprising diver can come up with some way to design some type of equipment for this, or perhaps some additional tables.

Butt-breathing science goes from IgNobel Prize infamy to human reality

 

[tridacna]

Anyone here wanna have first crack at this?

 

[-JD-]

Not, personally, but I'm thinking it might help to explain the folks who seem to be frequently talking out their a.....

 

[JohnN]

Although in the early testing phase, I am sure some enterprising diver can come up with some way to design some type of equipment for this, or perhaps some additional tables.

Butt-breathing science goes from IgNobel Prize infamy to human reality

Jim Carrey was prescient

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

Looks like this was just a feasibility study to see if the participants tolerated the non-oxygenated fluid in their colons. If it turns out to be a practical way of delivering O2 it might help ICU patients with severely compromised lungs, and it's less invasive than ECMO. The downside is that these were awake patients who were able to make an effort to retain the fluid. Any practical application would be on ventilated patients who are usually heavily sedated, which could interfere with keeping the fluid where it needs to be.

Cue the bottomless dark tunnel of jokes.

Best regards,
DDM

 

[scubadada]

Looks like this was just a feasibility study to see if the participants tolerated the non-oxygenated fluid in their colons. If it turns out to be a practical way of delivering O2 it might help ICU patients with severely compromised lungs, and it's less invasive than ECMO. The downside is that these were awake patients who were able to make an effort to retain the fluid. Any practical application would be on ventilated patients who are usually heavily sedated, which could interfere with keeping the fluid where it needs to be.

Cue the bottomless dark tunnel of jokes.

Best regards,
DDM

And how about CO2 elimination?

 

[ofg-1]

Cue the bottomless dark tunnel of jokes.

Bottomless dark tunnel? Ha

I assume you remember Dr. Kylstra's experiments?

 

[Duke Dive Medicine]

And how about CO2 elimination?

Good question. That can be controlled (somewhat) by changing the respiratory rate on the ventilator. I don't know how it would work with liquid in the colon.

I assume you remember Dr. Kylstra's experiments?

They were before my time. He only ventilated one lung with the perfluorocarbon in humans and if I recall correctly it caused pneumonia in more than one test subject.

Best regards,
DDM