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The real-life modern counterpart to Roald Dahl's fantasy machine is ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation). It works almost exactly the same as the device
by Calavar 3y ago
The real-life modern counterpart to Roald Dahl's fantasy machine is ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation). It works almost exactly the same as the device from the story. The longest that a person has survived on ECMO so far is a little over 300 days [1], but that's with the entire body hooked up to the machine, not just the brain.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474617/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474617/