In this video, Dr. Susruta Bandhopadhyay, HOD - ICU and Critical Care, Manipal Hospital Broadway, explains ECMO ...

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What is ECMO? | Critical Care | Manipal Hospital Broadway

hi I'm Dr shush bath director Critical Care manipal Broadway Hospital Kolkata EO or extracorporeal membrane oxygenator is a new technology in critical care it has come as a life support it actually takes out the blood from the in artery and sends or vein and sends it back to another vein and boosts the action of lung or heart which might not be working well and this will help the patient survive some days when the actual treatment whatever might be the disease might be can be done the patient stabilize and patient be taken out of life support it has saved many lives it has been used in typical conditions like what is called an erds this is an extensive damage of lung secondary to many diseases where the patient cannot maintain the ventil I mean oxygenation even with ventilation here EO comes as a lifesaver saves the life of the patient and let him sustained for few days or maybe sometime weeks and the patient gets better with treatment it has been also used in patients whose heart pumping is very poor and the Heart cannot send blood well to the different body sides or tissues where the Amo comes as a help and may again let the patient survive for some days so that some treatment can be done it has also come as a thing called an ecpr that is CPR is cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a patient who has come with his heart stopped and we are pumping to send I mean bring back the heart to life life here also it is an EO assisted CPR which has saved many lives and maybe possibly the uh new thing coming of the future or New Horizon opening up for the future so ECMO right now is an integral part of critical care and it has come as a GameChanger in many serious lifethreatening conditions

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