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ICU Management

Living-without-lungs-for-6-days-saves-a-mom-s-life

2017 31 Jan

In a challenging procedure never done before, thoracic surgeons at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without lungs for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transplant. A report of this case is published online in The Journal of...Read more