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From: dlbres10@pc.usl.edu (Fraering Philip)
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Subject: Re: Liquid SCUBA
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Date: 7 Feb 91 19:13:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: sesharp@happy.colorado.edu's message of 4 Feb 91 23:31:00 GMT

In article <1991Feb4.173100.1@happy.colorado.edu> sesharp@happy.colorado.edu writes:

>On the contrary, I think the only human trials with fluorocarbons in the
>lungs were to solve the insufficient surfactant problem in premature babies.
>They fill the lungs and then empty them as much as they can, leaving the
>fluorocarbons to hold the small air sacs open.  Premature babies often die
>of collapsed lungs because they don't produce sufficient surfactants to
>hold them open against surface tension.  I believe that the trials gave
>the babies up to 72 hours extra life.

Could you reference the study please?

I'm not questioning the truth of this, I'm curious because I was a premature
baby. (The only time in my life I was early, and it just about killed me).

Phil Fraering
dlbres10@pc.usl.edu