-
Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Jun 2012
Case ReportsSuccessful weaning from extracorporal circulation using a pumpless extracorporal lung assist device in a patient with intraoperative hypercapnic lung failure during aortic valve replacement.
- M Wilbring, M Petzoldt, H Gulbins, A E Goetz, and H Reichenspurner.
- Department for Cardiac Surgery, Center for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Martinistrasse 51, Hamburg, Germany. manuel.wilbring@gmail.com
- Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Jun 1;60(4):299-301.
AbstractWe present a case of a 59-year-old female suffering from massive pulmonary edema with consecutive hypercapnic lung failure immediately following elective aortic valve replacement. Due to severe restrictive ventilation disorder, mechanical ventilation was inadequate. A pumpless lung assist (PECLA, iLA, Novalung®, Talheim, Germany)--a device for extracorporeal carbon dioxide elimination--was used for successful weaning from extracorporeal circulation (ECC). Within 24 hours respiratory function had normalized and the patient could be extubated. The further clinical course and follow-up at 3 months remained uneventful. This report describes the first intraoperative use of the PECLA device in a cardiac surgery patient to promote weaning from ECC.Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..