The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is a new approach to rewarming patients with severe hypothermia and hemodynamic instability. There are, however, many questions regarding qualification for this technique in case of suspected or confirmed trauma.A male with confirmed accidental hypothermia (25°C) and after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation from in-hospital cardiac arrest was...

Extracorporeal assistances are exponentially used for patients, with acute severe but reversible heart or lung failure, to provide more prolonged support to bridge patients to heart and/or lung transplantation. However, experience of use of extracorporeal assistance for pulmonary resection is limited outside lung transplantation. Airways management with standard mechanical ventilation system ma...

BACKGROUND Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy is an effective treatment for chronic plantar fasciitis that can be administered to outpatients without anesthesia but has not yet been evaluated in controlled trials. HYPOTHESIS There is no difference in effectiveness between radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy and placebo in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis. STUDY DESIGN R...

P REVIOUS experiments indicated that during partial heart-lung bypass (also called partial perfusion), the cardiac output decreased as the extracorporeal flow increased. 1 In those experiments, the arterial tree was perfused from the heart-lung machine , using gravity instead of a pump. With greater amounts of blood passing through the extracorporeal circuit, there seemed to be an increase of t...

The effect of extracorporeal circulation during open heart surgery on changes in intellectual function was studied in 18 children. A group of patients undergoing such surgery was compared to a control group undergoing cardiac surgery without extracorporeal circulation. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was used to evaluate the patients. No significant differences were found in either...

I read with great interest the article by Hermon and coworkers [1], who reported that surfactant application in children with severe respiratory failure treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was associated with improved lung volume and pulmonary mechanics. Although these findings must be confirmed in prospective studies, they are very promising. Based on a series of animal studies, m...

sterilized soils are commonly used for the study of xenobiotic sorption and as an abiotic control in biodegradation experiments. they are also used for the chemical study of nitrogen and carbon cycle processes and the elimination of the biological factors. in this research the effects of different soil sterilization methods such as autoclaving, fumigating and exposure to ultraviolet and microwa...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Extracorporeal rheopheresis is a safe method to optimize hemorheology. Our aim was to determine whether treatment with extracorporeal rheopheresis in patients with acute ischemic hemispheric stroke improves cerebral perfusion as assessed with serial 99mTc-ethyl-cysteinate-dimer single-photon emission CT (99mTc-ECD SPECT). We also investigated how clinical outcome is assoc...

J Heart Lung Transplant 2008; 27: 466–468. 19 Olsson KM, Simon A, Strueber M, et al. ; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in nonintubated patients as bridge to lung transplantation. Am J Transplant 2010; 10: 2173–2178. 20 Wiklund L, Haraldsson A, Selimovic N, et al. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to lung transplantation in a patient with persistent severe porto-pulmonary arter...

OBJECTIVES There is a paucity of data regarding the impact of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support, adequacy of surgical repair, and timing of intervention for residual structural lesions in neonates cannulated to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after cardiac surgery. Our goal was to determine how these factors were associated with survival. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Ca...