Looking at the results obtained, such an extra-corporeal device seems to perform well and is a promising method.
In particular, the fabrication of safe intra-corporeal devices, such as pacemakers, catheters, and bone screws, represents a challenging topic since almost any abiotic surface is prone to contaminations and infections caused by microorganisms that adhere onto the device surface, then colonizing it[2, 3].
Corporeal desire clashes with evangelical piety, tragedy ensues — just not in that order.
Efforts to shock her heart into action failed, but rather than send her to the morgue, doctors connected her to an extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine – a device that acts as an artificial lung and heart, and is a standard of care in Japan – and left her to circulate.
Types of medical devices commonly associated with incidents ranged from dialysis and extra corporeal life support machines and infusion pumps to implantable devices, such as catheters, stents, and inferior vena cava filters.
Since PRAM can be implemented in various conditions of flow, we assessed its accuracy in cardiac surgery during extra-corporeal circulation (ECC), using the roller pump device (RP) as the reference gold standard.
A recent approach to Molyneux's problem involves the use of sensory substitution devices, developed in the context of corporeal mobility or reading (Morgan, 1977).
However, no children died or required ECMO (extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation), a last-resort critical-care device that takes over the patient's lungs and heart to oxygenate and circulate the blood when the patient's organs can no longer do so.
ACT: activated clotting time; aPTT: activated partial thromboplastin time; ATIII: antithrombin III; ECMO: extra corporeal membrane oxygenation; IABP: intra aortic balloon pump; LVAD: left ventricular assist device; LVEDD: left ventricular end diastolic diameter; PPCM: peripartum cardiomyopathy; UFH: unfractionated heparin.
To describe a single-center experience with the AngioVac device (Angiodynamics, Latham, New York), a 22 Fr percutaneous aspiration thrombectomy device designed for venous aspiration, extra-corporeal filtration, and venous re-infusion.
As technology enables people to remain "alive" on ever more complex equipment, such as bilateral ventricular assist devices and extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation machines, the line between life and death blurs.
