Chicago, November 10: In a life saving operation doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago made artificial lungs and breast implants on a 34-year-old patient whose lungs were severely damaged due to vaping. As per CBS News report, Davey Bauer had to undergo double lung transplant after his lungs were damaged due to years of vaping. Bauer reportedly started smoking at the age of 21 and later switched to vaping thinking it to be a safer alternative to smoking. Experts have termed the surgery as an "innovative solution" to save the patient.
Davey Bauer decided to visit doctor when he started suffering from shortness of breath in April, 2023. Subsequently, he was diagnosed with flu and later developed a bacterial infection in both lungs that proved to be resistant to antibiotics. The doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago said that his lungs were so infected that they had started to liquefy. Maximus Health Data Compromised: US Government Contractor Confirms over 8 Million Patient Data Exploited by MOVEit Hackers.
When Bauer was admitted to the hospital it was very evident to the doctors that Bauer's would not survive an operation. According to the doctors, the nasty infection had to be removed before he could be listed for a transplant. "The only way to eliminate the infection was to remove both lungs", said Director of the lung transplant program at Northwestern, Rade Tomic.
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