A little used machine designed to detox people who overdose on Tylenol and other medications found another use. Doctors at Shock Trauma used it to save a teenage gunshot victim and then a college football player and an amateur triathlete who suffered heat-strokes. Twenty-seven patients facing death from liver failure were hooked to the machine from 2013 through 2016 and the majority lived – a tally Maryland doctors now hope spurs a new look at the old technology.

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