ECMO Heart and Lung Life Support

ECMO Heart and Lung Life Support ecmo ECMO stands for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation The ECMO machine is similar to the heart-lung bypass machine used for open heart surgery Extra corporeal ecmo Outline · Oxygenation and ventilation · Maintenance of anticoagulation · Sedation · Prone positioning · V-V to V-A ECMO conversion

ecmo In veno-arterial ECMO blood is removed from the venous circulation through special tubes called cannulae The blood is then returned to an artery; commonly

ecmo ECMO stands for ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation You may also hear it called ECLS, which stands for ExtraCorporeal Life Support It is a treatment that uses ECMO is a circuit comprised of a draining cannula that drains blood from the body that is circulated in the machine and returns back to the body through a