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American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

So, you know how sometimes when people get really sick, their organs stop working properly? Maybe their heart isn't pumping enough blood or their lungs can't get enough air into their body.

Well, sometimes doctors can help those people by putting in something called an artificial internal organ. These are special devices that help the sick person's body work better.

The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASIAO for short) is a group of people who study and research these artificial internal organs. They want to make sure that these devices are safe for people to use and that they work really well.

They also want to make sure that doctors and nurses who use these devices know what they're doing and are able to help their patients as best they can.

So basically, the ASIAO is a group of really smart people who want to help sick people by making sure that these artificial organs work as well as possible, and that the doctors and nurses using them know what they're doing.