Vol 2 Chapter 1876: 5 line items

Chapter 1877 Five Elements Project

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These requests for help are varied and varied, most of which are patients and their families. Many of them asked about other technologies, such as artificial lungs, artificial kidneys, and even artificial stomachs and artificial brains.

Regarding this, Wu Hai and the others were also very speechless. If everything in a person is replaced, is this person still a person?

In fact, the artificial lung project was carried out relatively early, and it started at the same time as the intelligent bionic electronic prosthetic eye and intelligent bionic artificial heart projects.

They all belong to the sub-projects under Wu Hao's smart organ bionic project. This smart organ bionic project has a resounding code name, Wuxing.

The five elements are the basic way for our ancients to understand the world. In their simple values, the world is composed of five elements, namely the five elements, which are gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the five elements also represent the five organs in the body, namely the heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney. The center governs fire, the liver governs wood, the spleen governs earth, the kidney governs water, and the lung governs metal.

Taking this code name, as the name suggests, is to hope to develop artificial bionic organs that can replace the five viscera. Of course, it is not limited to the five internal organs. There are many organs in the human body, and the five elements are just a general term.

The research and development of the artificial lung project has been continuing. At first, everyone thought that this project should go smoothly. It is nothing more than miniaturizing ECMO and putting it in the patient's chest.

However, after in-depth research and experiments, it was found that this project was very difficult. The first is the issue of miniaturization, how to miniaturize such a large ECMO device and fit it into the patient's lungs. In addition to the skin, the lungs should be the largest organ in the human body, accounting for half of the space in the entire torso, and there are two more, which can be said to be one of the most important core organs in the body.

Although there is a very large space in the chest cavity, it cannot accommodate an ECMO. And miniaturization is not as simple as reducing the volume proportionally. It is necessary to consider the problem of body fit and weight relationship. The human body's perception of excess weight is very obvious, so the weight of the miniaturized artificial lung must be controlled to be similar to that of the original lung, and not exceed too much.

In addition, for such a device, its driving energy issues, the reliability and safety of equipment operation, as well as the interference and rejection problems in the body, etc.

After all, if such a large device is put in, whether the human body can bear it, and whether there will be some infection problems for a long time. In addition, this device must be connected to the aortic vein and respiratory tract, whether the connection is safe and reliable, and so on.

Wu Hao's goal is to develop a truly intelligent bionic artificial lung that can completely replace the patient's lung function. That is to say, at that time, all the lungs of the patient will be removed, and then a smart bionic artificial lung will be installed in the empty chest cavity.

Such an operation is very difficult, even more difficult than a heart transplant. And the risk is very high, because the lung is the organ most susceptible to infection, it can be directly connected with the outside world, and the air that the human body breathes will enter the lung.

Moreover, patients are required to be able to breathe independently without affecting other organs or causing additional effects on the human body.

It is precisely because of these problems that the progress of this project is relatively slow. So much so that the smart bionic electronic prosthetic eye, the smart bionic artificial heart, and even the bionic artificial kidney have been released, but the smart bionic artificial lung has not moved yet.

Although Zou Xiaodong doesn't pay much attention to these scientific research projects, he still pays more attention to this project. After all, this is a life-saving technology, and it can save a life at a critical time. Everyone has friends, everyone has relatives, this thing is not good.

What's more, Zou Xiaodong's mother is not in good health. She suffers from asthma, which gets worse in winter. Although he is rich now, Zou Xiaodong bought a luxury villa on the South China Sea Island and sent his parents there for the winter, so as to avoid and resolve the aggravation of his mother's condition.

But he also knows that as the mother gets older, the condition will only get worse, so he has been paying close attention to this project, which is why he asked this question.

Of course Wu Hao knew this, so he was not surprised by Zou Xiaodong's question. And because it was related to his mother, Wu Hao didn't make fun of him, but replied to him: "The project is progressing relatively smoothly, the engineering prototype has been developed.

The shape is similar to that of a real lung, and it is also divided into two halves, with a special skin-friendly silicone material on the outside, which can reduce the irritation to the human body. Moreover, this material is stable in state, not easy to decompose and aging, and suitable for long-term use.

Like real lungs, we also designed and developed left and right halves for this artificial lung. They all have independent operation functions, complement each other, and serve as backups for each other.

That is, we placed a small ECMO on the left and right.

In this way, even if one of them fails, the other will work normally. And it will also actively increase the power to provide patients with more than 80% of blood oxygen and maintain the basic physiological health of the human body.

In this way, patients have enough time to rush to the hospital or corresponding institutions for corresponding treatment.

In addition, in the energy supply section, we have also installed our latest super solid-state battery. And the left and right lungs are equipped with super solid-state batteries, three on each side, two of which are main batteries~www.readwn.com~ and one is a backup emergency battery.

This way, even if one or two batteries fail, the other batteries can still keep the device running.

Even if all four main batteries fail, or die, the two backup emergency batteries can provide the patient with about four to six hours of time.

With this time, patients can easily find a charging power source, or rush to the corresponding hospital for treatment.

In addition, we have also designed a contraction airbag on the left and right sides of this intelligent bionic artificial lung. This airbag is used for human breathing to store air, and can drive the chest cavity to contract and maintain normal human physiological indication response.

That is to say, after the patient is implanted with this intelligent bionic artificial lung, no matter the human physiological response or daily life, it will not be affected, and he can live like a normal person. Even from the outside, patients are no different from normal people, which can greatly protect the privacy of patients, maintain the self-esteem of patients' life, and ensure the quality of life of patients. "

Speaking of this, Wu Hao smiled and said: "For these patients implanted with intelligent bionic artificial lungs, there is another good news, that is, they no longer have to worry about hypoxia and altitude sickness when they go to the plateau. .

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