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Can you wash the carbon fiber dust out of the lungs?

• lifeisstillgood 12y ago
  Washing air-breathing lungs with water sounds problematic, although with fluro-carbons and the prevalence of lung cancer I am not going to say no-one hasn't tried !
  • ars 12y ago
    You could wash one lung at a time. Or use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Water in an of itself won't hurt lungs as long as the patient gets enough oxygen.
    • FreeFull 12y ago
      I imagine you would have to use saline rather than plain water to avoid the lung cells bursting due to osmosis.
    • kleim 12y ago
      "Water in an of itself won't hurt lungs" Yes it does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning#Secondary_drowning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning#Secondary_drowning If you ever get saved from near drowning, you are still not safe.