ECMO and Blood Transfusion

体外体膜氧合(ECMO)是一种心肺机器，它用氧气取代血液中的二氧化碳，使器官在因感染或创伤而受伤后有机会休息。它在猪流感爆发中拯救了许多人的生命。血液在异物表面的流动会导致炎症、细胞损伤和需要输血。这项研究的目的是确定ECMO的哪个部分会导致损伤以及如何造成损伤。这将提高最严重形式的心脏和呼吸系统疾病的存活率。

Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a heart/lung machine that replaces blood CO2 with oxygen, giving organs a chance to rest after injury due to infection or trauma. It saved many lives in the swine flu outbreak. Blood moving across foreign surfaces causes inflammation, cell injury and a need for transfusions. This study aims to identify which part of the ECMO causes injury and how. This will to improve survival rates of the most severe forms of cardiac and respiratory disease.