A sleeping pig could save your life.

[cogar]

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

[dontbe]

OK, thats just weird...
Why Cogar?

[cogar]

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. 

[mart]

havent heard much about lungs but pig heart valves have been used for years !

[cogar]

That's what I was trying to remember when I penned the above, .."pig heart valves".

[KC]

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!

[mart]

well,, at least we know he is out there reading the posts !!

[KC]

yep on that Mart!