Could portable dialysis take the pain out of deep diving?
Rather than breathing through the lungs perhaps breathe through a portable dialysis machine, which removes unwanted gases from the blood on the way up for example.
mollwollfumble said:
Could portable dialysis take the pain out of deep diving?Rather than breathing through the lungs perhaps breathe through a portable dialysis machine, which removes unwanted gases from the blood on the way up for example.
It’d be far more useful in the medical field, and be only useful for a very small subset of commercial divers.
mollwollfumble said:
Could portable dialysis take the pain out of deep diving?Rather than breathing through the lungs perhaps breathe through a portable dialysis machine, which removes unwanted gases from the blood on the way up for example.
Dialysis and painfree are not two words often associated.
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:
Could portable dialysis take the pain out of deep diving?Rather than breathing through the lungs perhaps breathe through a portable dialysis machine, which removes unwanted gases from the blood on the way up for example.
Dialysis and painfree are not two words often associated.
I think this would require a tap into some very large plumbing (Pulmonary artery & pulmonary vein – Both big and fragile and deep inside the rib cage) or lesser vessels, which would severely limit flow.
why not go the whole ECMO
Perhaps breathing liquid would help.
mollwollfumble said:
Could portable dialysis take the pain out of deep diving?Rather than breathing through the lungs perhaps breathe through a portable dialysis machine, which removes unwanted gases from the blood on the way up for example.
I think you mean add pain.
I was originally thinking liquid breathing. It was demonstrated as safe for mice way back in the 1970s but has seldom been used since.
I didn’t know that dialysis was painful, sorry.
I had to look up ECMO, I hadn’t heard of it.
“Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), also known as extracorporeal life support (ECLS), is an extracorporeal technique of providing prolonged cardiac and respiratory support to persons whose heart and lungs are unable to provide an adequate amount of gas exchange or perfusion to sustain life.”
You’re right, ECMO does look better. I wonder if that can be made portable.