saffe@lut.fi (Petri Savolainen) (02/07/91)
Mmm, sorry, this is going a bit off-limits, but as it seems there is some interest about the subject, i considered it to be o.k. in this case. My question is, does anyone know about filling lungs with liquid, but *NOT* breathing it? The trick was having a small(?) device connected to some major vein(s?) that took the CO2 off and provided enough oxy- gen. I do not remember any details, but that was the trick. It included some complicated chemical process, though. I think it may (???!) have included an external oxygen tank (?). Or was the device capable of so- mehow trapping oxygen from the water? Hemoglobin was somehow involved in the process also. The article about this was some 3-6 years ago in a Finnish magazine called "Tieteen kuvalehti" (I guess the outlook is quite similar to Scientific American for example) and it told that this was possible and even had been somewhat successful. -saffe-