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Cardiopulmonary bypass: development of John Gibbon's heart-lung machine
Objective:To provide a brief review of the development of cardiopulmonary bypass.Methods:A review of the literature on the development of extracorporeal circulation techniques, their essential role in cardiovascular surgery, and the complications ...
Andréia Cristina Passaroni +2 more
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) assists blood circulation and gas exchange via a heart–lung machine. ECMO is used mainly in intensive care units as bridging therapy until heart and respiratory failure can be addressed or until transplantation ...
Misoon Lee +6 more
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A Contact-Free Optical Device for the Detection of Pulmonary Congestion—A Pilot Study
Background: The cost of heart failure hospitalizations in the US alone is over USD 10 billion per year. Over 4 million Americans are hospitalized every year due to heart failure (HF), with a median length of stay of 4 days and an in-hospital mortality ...
Ilan Merdler +14 more
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Aim: An activation of non-specific inflammatory response, coagulation disorder, and blood morphotic elements damage are the main side effects of the extracorporeal circulation (ECC).
Tomasz Walski +15 more
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Purpose: Under the influence of COVID-19 and the in-hospital cost, the in-home detection of cardiovascular disease with smart sensing devices is becoming more popular recently.
Shen Feng +15 more
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Left ventricle unloading during veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: review with updated evidence [PDF]
Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) is widely used to treat medically refractory cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest, and its usage has increased exponentially over time. Although VA-ECMO has many advantages over other mechanical
Yongwhan Lim +2 more
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Chronic heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), coronavirus disease (COVID), and kidney failure are leading causes of death in the U.S. and across the globe.
Christopher Leong +3 more
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Leveraging Machine Perfusion to Ameliorate Geographic Disparities in Organ Allocation
Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash INTRODUCTION Geographic inequities in access to donor lungs have persisted since the first successful lung transplant in 1983.[1] With unanswered questions regarding organ preservation and transport in the ...
Derek Soled, Cray Noah
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Objective. To study the clinical and laboratory characteristics of recipients during orthotopic heart transplantation according to intraoperative monitoring. Materials and methods.
M. M. Goncharenko
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Measuring Exhaled Propofol in an Ex Vivo Lung Model with Low-Cost Metal Oxide Gas Sensors
Herein, commercially available MOS gas sensors running in temperature cycling operations are studied for the online monitoring of propofol in an ex vivo ventilation and perfusion lung model.
Christian Bur +6 more
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