Have you ever heard of an ECMO machine? Do you know what it does?
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Zandalee.Lonely.Lunatic.3yrs-here
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In intensive care medicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased that they can no longer serve their function. An ECMO machine is similar to a heart-lung machine. To initiate ECMO, small tubes are placed in large blood vessels to provide access to the patient's blood. Anticoagulant drugs are given to prevent blood clotting. The ECMO machine continuously pumps blood from the patient through a "membrane oxygenator" that removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen. Oxygenated blood is then returned to the patient. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMO
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ECMO, in simple terms, is a way to oxygenate the blood when the body cannot do it itself.
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It provides cardiac and respiratory support to a patient whose lungs and heart, are diseased or damaged and can no longer serve their proper functions.
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