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Russian Vice President Dmitry Rogozin recently met with Serbian President Alexander Vučić, demonstrating foreign policy a number of domestic scientific developments. One of them has become an advanced liquid breathing system. Such technology allows living things like a dog to breathe fluid filling her lungs.
Liquid ventilation can be observed in American sci-fi film “Abyss”. Research in this area led in the 70s and 80s by Soviet scientists. They managed to get breathe the greed of laboratory mice, but beyond that interesting developments in the USSR did not advance.
Now, Russian craftsmen managed to successfully conduct such experiment on a dog. By turning on the video below, you can see how in a container with oxygen-saturated liquid a dachshund is placed. The animal is mastered for several minutes in a new environment, after which it begins to breathe without problems there. Then the dog removed from the tank and wiped with a towel. Obviously with her everything is fine. The Head of Government of Serbia personally ascertained that the dachshund did not suffer, after which he stated that he remained very I’m impressed with what I saw – it’s just fantastic!
Prospects for using a liquid breathing system
Domestic scientists claim that their promising technology will become irreplaceable in the future. Fluid lung ventilation carried out through a liquid that dissolves oxygen well and allowing him to easily enter the bloodstream. Russian researchers use highly inert for this purpose perfluorocarbon compounds with low surface tension, which are not metabolized by the body.
This technology has been reported to be used in many areas. For example, deep-sea scuba divers who fluid breathing will allow you to fight high blood pressure. Or, let’s say if an accident occurs in a submarine deeper than a hundred meters, this will save the crew from death. Decompression sickness will not allow sailors to just so immediately rise to the surface because “boiling blood effect”, however, if they breathe fluid, they can safely leave the submarine and get upstairs.
In theory, liquid breathing can be used in space flights to save premature babies and people with burns of the respiratory tract, as well as in complex therapy. Generally the prospects are huge!
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