extracorporeal oxygenation

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• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — In intensive care medicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an extracorporeal technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no… …   Wikipedia

• Extracorporeal — An extracorporeal medical procedure is a medical procedure which is carried outside the body. Circulatory proceduresIt is usually a procedure in which blood is taken from a patient s circulation to have a process applied to it before it is… …   Wikipedia

• Oxygenation (medical) — For Oxygen saturation in general, see Oxygen saturation. Oxygenation occurs when oxygen molecules (O2) enter the tissues of the body. For example, blood is oxygenated in the lungs, where oxygen molecules travel from the air and into the blood.… …   Wikipedia

• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — (ECMO) extracorporeal life support …   Medical dictionary

• extracorporeal life support — (ECLS) the provision of respiratory support by circulating the blood through an artificial lung consisting of two compartments separated by a gas permeable membrane, with the blood on one side and the ventilating gas on the other; used in… …   Medical dictionary

• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — a technique that is accepted as a rescue treatment for otherwise fatal respiratory failure in newborn babies or infants due to prematurity or overwhelming septicaemia (e.g. meningitis). It involves modified prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass to… …   Medical dictionary

• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — ECMO a technique that is accepted as a rescue treatment for otherwise fatal respiratory failure in newborn babies or infants due to prematurity or overwhelming septicaemia (e.g. meningitis). It involves modified prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Extrakorporale Membranoxygenierung — Venös arterielle ECMO Schema beim Neugeborenen Die Extrakorporale Membranoxygenierung (ECMO) ist eine intensivmedizinische Technik, bei der eine Maschine teilweise oder vollständig die Atemfunktion von Patienten übernimmt. Sie wird angewendet bei …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• ECMO — Venös arterielle ECMO Schema beim Neugeborenen Die Extrakorporale Membranoxygenierung (ECMO) ist eine Form der extrakorporalen Organersatzverfahren, auch Extracorporeal Life Support= extrakorporale Lebensunterstützung (ECLS) genannt, und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Membrane oxygenator — A membrane oxygenator is a device used to add oxygen to, and remove carbon dioxide from the blood. It can be used in two principal modes: to imitate the function of the lungs in cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), and to oxygenate blood in longer term… …   Wikipedia

• perfusionist — noun Date: 1964 a certified medical technician responsible for extracorporeal oxygenation of the blood during open heart surgery and for the operation and maintenance of equipment (as a heart lung machine) controlling it …   New Collegiate Dictionary