A 22-Year Experience in Global Transport Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
We report a 22-year experience from the only facility providing global transport ECMO.
World's Largest Resource for Cardiovascular Perfusion
We report a 22-year experience from the only facility providing global transport ECMO.
Various approaches to venous return during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) have been described in the literature. However, venous drainage using a gravity siphon has been the most common means employed to effect venous drainage into the cardiopulmonary bypass circuit.
The concern centers on devices called drug-eluting stents. Doctors implant them in the hearts of about a million Americans a year to treat coronary artery disease. They generate some $5 billion a year in sales for the two companies that make them. But they may be doing more harm than good.