{"id":18173,"date":"2024-11-22T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18173"},"modified":"2024-11-22T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T06:25:22","slug":"woman-gets-first-double-lung-transplant-done-by-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18173","title":{"rendered":"Woman gets first double lung transplant done by robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Cheryl Mehrkar was the recipient of the world&#8217;s first fully robotic double lung transplant on 22 October at NYU Langone Health Center in Manhattan. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mehrkar, who is a medic, had suffered with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a decade that became more severe when she experienced a bout of Covid. She had spent years researching for a solution before becoming eligible for this procedure. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The technique builds on minimally invasive surgeries and aims to reduce hospital stays as well as speed up recovery periods. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Almost a month after the surgery, Mehrkar is now days from being released from hospital. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"video-edited-by-ottilie-mitchell\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video edited by Ottilie Mitchell<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c3deyr0n357o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Mehrkar was the recipient of the world&#8217;s first fully robotic double lung transplant on 22 October at NYU Langone Health Center in Manhattan. Mehrkar, who is a medic, had suffered with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a decade that became more severe when she experienced a bout of Covid. She had spent years researching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}