Liquid membranes drug overdose, treatment

Spherical liquid membranes consist, in simplest terms, of an emulsion suspended in a liquid that does not destroy the emulsion. In a typical application, small droplets of aqueous solution are encapsulated in a thin-film oil this emulsion is then suspended in another aqueous solution. Alternatively, small droplets of oil can be emulsified with water and the emulsion suspended in oil. In the first case, the oil phase is the liquid membrane in the second case, the water is the Uquid membrane. A typical droplet might be about 100 p,m in diameter. These spherical liquid membrane systems have many potential medical applications in the emergency treatment of drug overdoses and for oxygenating the blood system. Spherical liquid membranes may be applied in resource recovery and water purification, as encapsulated cells as well as liquid membrane encapsulated enzymes [331). 

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