Authors
L Gattinoni, A Pesenti, GP Rossi, S Vesconi, U Fox, T Kolobow, A Agostoni, A Pelizzola, M Langer, L Uziel, F Longoni, G Damia
Publication date
1980/8/9
Journal
The Lancet
Volume
316
Issue
8189
Pages
292-294
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Terminal respiratory failure was reversed in three patients with a combination of extracorporeal CO2 removal through a membrane lung and oxygen diffusion into the diseased lungs between mechanical breaths induced at a frequency of 2-3/min. The technique seems to prevent the pulmonary barotrauma and extrapulmonary derangements caused by conventional mechanical ventilation.
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L Gattinoni, A Pesenti, GP Rossi, S Vesconi, U Fox… - The Lancet, 1980