What is ECMO and what can it do for patients with cardiopulmonary failure?

ECMO, commonly known as artificial heart-lung machine, provides continuous extracorporeal respiration and circulation for patients with severe cardiorespiratory failure to maintain the patient's life.ECMO is also the most central means for severe cardiorespiratory failure, and is known as the critically ill patient's? ECMO is also the most central tool for severe cardiopulmonary failure and is known as the "last straw" for critically ill patients. is a very top life-supporting technology, and also represents the highest level of critical care emergency treatment in the affiliated medical institutions. However, ECMO also played an important role in the treatment of patients in the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, especially with the increase in the number of critically ill patients, the demand for ECMO is also increasing.

Since the outbreak, the demand for ECMO in Wuhan, Hubei has been increasing with the increase in the number of diagnosed and critically ill patients, and the central government has requested that ECMOs be mobilized from all over the country to support Hubei in the response to the neocoronavirus outbreak. During the period before and after, in order to do everything possible to protect critically ill patients, various departments joined hands to do everything possible to mobilize ECMO to Hubei, and all departments cooperated and used various ways and means to provide more precious time for the front treatment work, so it can be imagined how positively ECMO has played a role in protecting critically ill patients. Moreover, we have purchased a new batch of ECMO from abroad to rush to Wuhan, Hubei Province.

ECMO is essentially a modified artificial heart-lung machine, the core part of the membrane lungs and blood pumps, in the middle of the role of artificial lungs and artificial heart, as a way to patients with severe cardiopulmonary failure for a long time cardiopulmonary support, in order to win the patient can be achieved valuable time. In cases where recovery of cardiopulmonary function is not possible, recovery is achieved by detaching the ECMO through transplantation. This is also easy to understand and creates a trend? Artificial organs have also gained importance in transplantation techniques. Some medical centers have already achieved some success in this area. The basis of all this work is the protection of multiple other organs, and avoiding multiple organ damage is the key to success.