Search Tag: ECCO2R
2019 22 Mar
At the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine , Professor V. Marco Ranieri , University of Bologna, discussed the SUPERNOVA trial and presented an overview on extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO 2 R) as a supportive measure in superprotective lung ventilation. Mechanical ventilation can cause a form...Read more
2018 16 Oct
Shares experiences of implementing extracorporeal life support in a non-academic hospital. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening disorder characterised by severe impairment of gas exchange. The most common causes are pneumonia, sepsis and acute pancreatitis. It is accurately defined in the Berlin definitions...Read more
2018 16 Mar
Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal is emerging as a potential strategy to manage acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. There may be an opportunity to use similar techniques to manage chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure, in what may be termed "chronic respiratory dialysis", potentially altering the physiological and clinical effects of chronic...Read more