Towards the design and implementation of a human circulatory system for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation simulation
Towards the design and implementation of a human circulatory system for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation simulation
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体外膜氧合模拟人体循环系统的设计和实现
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejccm.2018.12.017
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2018
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I. Hassan
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U. Khurshid;A. Mahmoud;Aiman Abducarim;S. Mahmud;Omrane Abdallah;Elshaikh Mohamed;F. Bensaali;A. Amira;A. Alsalemi;Ali Ait Hssain;Guillaume Alinier;I. Hassan
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving procedure developed for the care of patients with short-term respiratory and/or cardiac issues (MacLaren et al., 2011). ECMO patients must be monitored twenty-four hours a day by an ECMO-trained multidisciplinary team. The trained healthcare professional needs to watch over fifty variables and rapidly intervene to assess and resolve any given emergency. Hence hands on training is very important for ECMO professionals to develop rapid and correct actions upon different scenarios. Simulation based training (SBT) offers ECMO practitioners an opportunity to develop the skills needed for the initiation of the ECMO procedure and the care of ECMO patients without exposing patients to undue risks (Al Disi et al., 2018). For ECMO to work, cannulation is required to reroute the blood flow to the machine rather than the lung and/or heart. Cannulation is the insertion of a cannula through the blood vessels. In collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the main healthcare provider in Qatar, the aim of this project is to develop an effective, economical realistic, user-friendly, low-cost, and a multi-functional high-fidelity cannulation simulation mannequin.1. BackgroundExtracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving procedure developed for the care of patients with short-term respiratory and/or cardiac issues [1]. ECMO patients must be monitored twenty-four hours a day by an ECMO-trained multidisciplinary team. The trained healthcare professionals need to watch over fifty variables and rapidly intervene to assess and resolve any given emergency. Hence hands-on training is very important for ECMO practitioners to develop rapid and correct actions to respond to different potential situations. Simulation-based training (SBT) offers ECMO practitioners an opportunity to develop the skills needed for the initiation of the ECMO procedure and the care of ECMO patients without exposing them to undue risks [2]. For ECMO to work, cannulation is required to reroute the blood flow to the machine rather than the lung and/or heart. Cannulation is the insertion of a cannula through the blood vessels. In collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the main healthcare provider in Qatar, the aim of this project is to develop an effective, economical, realistic, user-friendly, low-cost, and multi-functional cannulation trainer.2. MethodsThe proposed ECMO simulator, as illustrated in Fig. 1, consists of two sub-systems:(a) ECMO training eco-system; and (b) Cannulation trainer. The first sub-system is being developed by another group of researchers and is in its final stage. It encompasses a thermochromic loop, an innovative blood color simulation mechanism [3, 4], and simulation modules developed to simulate ECMO circuit complications [5, 6]. The system can cost-effectively simulate a plethora of ECMO training scenarios with a high level of realism (eg hypoxemia, line chattering, power failure, pump failure, etc.). Instructors can steer the learning experience through an innovative tablet application that enables real-time control of various ECMO simulation modules and program scenarios for standardized learning sessions [7–9]. However, the simulator did not focus on the underlying system in the body/mannequin. This work describes the second sub-system which focuses on the emulations of the different functions of the human body such as the pumping of blood from heart to the organs, along with the cannulation procedure and the risks occurred during the procedure. The focus is mainly on the design and the construction of a closed-loop system with thermochromic ink and the usage …