Objective: The majority of patients suffering from pulmonary failure refractory to mechanical
ventilation require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support between 1 and 2 …

BACKGROUND: Worsening of lung function in patients awaiting lung transplantation can
lead to ventilation-refractory hypoxemia or hypercapnia and respiratory acidosis. This report …

Background: The success of US Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT) in
transporting critically ill and injured patients enabled changes in military medical force …

Die extrakorporale Zirkulation wird angewendet, um während einer Herzoperation und bei
Herz-Lungen-Versagen die Herz-Kreislauf-Funktion aufrecht zu erhalten. Der Leitfaden …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is the ultimate treatment option to improve
gas exchange and decrease the aggressiveness of mechanical ventilation in septic patients …

Objective: To review the principles of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and to
describe the recent advancements in ECMO technology that permit use of this rescue …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can achieve sufficient gas exchange in severe acute
respiratory distress syndrome. A highly integrated extracorporeal membrane oxygenator …

Extracorporeal assist systems for respiratory and circulatory failure are increasingly used in
intensive care medicine. Important technical innovations over the past years have resulted in …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a recognized and accepted therapeutic
option in the treatment of neonatal and pediatric respiratory failure. However, early studies in …

This study considers the problem of controlling the patient blood gases with the objective of
maintaining these blood gases in their physiological ranges during a stable extracorporeal …