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cogar

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A sleeping pig could save your life.
« on: July 24, 2020, 05:04:12 am »
Hooking human lungs up to sleeping pigs could boost transplant success, research says

Read more @  https://www.foxnews.com/health/hooking-human-lungs-sleeping-pigs-boost-transplant-success

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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2020, 09:38:20 am »
OK, thats just weird...
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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2020, 12:35:54 pm »
OK, thats just weird...
Why Cogar?

Because you wouldn't want to use an awake pig.

An awake pig, in an OR, probably wouldn't lie still while you were getting your lungs replaced.

Something has to be "breathing" for you ...... when you can't be doing it yourself.  ;D ;D

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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2020, 02:24:04 pm »
havent heard much about lungs but pig heart valves have been used for years !

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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2020, 04:46:12 am »
That's what I was trying to remember when I penned the above, .."pig heart valves".

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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2020, 09:03:15 am »
I actually laughed out loud "dontbe" because it took Cogar's comment about sleeping pigs to get you to comment on here! 

They do come up with the darnedest things in medicine!
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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2020, 04:55:28 pm »
well,, at least we know he is out there reading the posts !!

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Re: A sleeping pig could save your life.
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2020, 11:10:47 pm »
yep on that Mart!
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