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Alternatives To Blood Transfusion
Blood transfusions, a brain-scanning helmet and oxygen chambers
Using hyperbaric oxygen chambers to treat patients; Blood transfusions may lower body's resistance to disease. Alternatives being suggested include washing blood and use of plasma. Also in the programme, a helmet that scans brain activity while you sleep and the use of oxygen, or hyperbaric, chambers to help recover from illness or operation.
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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
