extracorporeal membrane 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 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
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
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
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
ECMO — Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Medical » Physiology) * Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Medical » Laboratory) … Abbreviations 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
EBOO — or Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation is a unique hemofiltration like procedure developed and now used routinely in the medical department at the University of Siena in Italy [cite journal |author=Di Paolo N, Gaggiotti E, Galli F… … Wikipedia
