Lungs in a box
TechKnow explores a new technology which could be a game-changer in the organ retrieval process.
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Note: Some of the images shown in this programme may disturb sensitive viewers.
You can expand your region of where you are willing to take lungs from .... Travel is a non-factor.
Breathing usually happens so naturally that most people never even think about it – until something goes wrong.
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On this edition of TechKnow, contributor Dr Shini Somara follows a transplant team to understand how they rush into action whenever a donor organ becomes available.
We then explore a new technology which could be a game-changer in the organ retrieval process – a device that keeps lungs warm and breathing outside the human body, and which may eliminate time and distance factors from the organ transplant process.
Contributor Marita Davison, a biologist specialising in ecology and evolution, then joins researchers at Cal State University’s shark lab who are developing a submersible robot that follows sharks and measures a range of enviromental conditions.
Davison takes a dip in the underwater lab and meets the waterproof robot that follows the elusive sea-creatures around, in an attempt to offer us a window into their natural behaviour.
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