Physiological and Technical Considerations of Extracorporeal CO2 Removal

Christian Karagiannidis; Felix Hesselmann; Eddy Fan

doi:10.1186/s13054-019-2367-z

Physiological and Technical Considerations of Extracorporeal CO₂ Removal

Crit Care. 2019 Mar 9;23(1):75. doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2367-z.

Authors

Christian Karagiannidis¹, Felix Hesselmann², Eddy Fan³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Cologne-Merheim Hospital, ARDS and ECMO Centre, Witten/Herdecke University Hospital, Ostmerheimer Strasse 200, D-51109, Cologne, Germany. Christian.Karagiannidis@uni-wh.de.
² Department of Cardiovascular Engineering, Institute of Applied Medical Engineering, Helmholtz Institute Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
³ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto and the Extracorporeal Life Support Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2019 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Carbon Dioxide / adverse effects
Carbon Dioxide / physiology*
Emergency Medicine / instrumentation
Emergency Medicine / methods
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / adverse effects
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / instrumentation
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / methods*
Humans

Substances

Carbon Dioxide