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Artificial Lung Technology
The device helps patients get oxygen into their blood by transporting blood to a gas exchanger that removes carbon dioxide and oxygenates the blood before returning it to the heart, bypassing the lungs of the patient, said Zwischenberger, chairman of the UK Department of Surgery. It's meant for patients who are too sick to be maintained on a ventilator and is designed as temporary treatment for severe respiratory failure.
Normally, a patient is sedated while using an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Consequently, the patient is bedridden, which causes the muscles to become increasingly weak. However, Zwischenberger's device, the bi-caval double lumen catheter, manufactured by Avalon Laboratories, is an advanced form of ECMO, also known as ambulatory artificial lungs.Zwischenberger's goal was to allow patients to do normal things, even exercise, while using the device.
That goal was achieved on April 8, when Dr. Charles Hoopes, director of the UK Heart and Lung Transplant Program and the Ventricular Assist Device Program, performed surgery on Ernie Gillispie, of Canada, Ky., to allow the use of this artificial lung and double lumen catheter.
With the assistance of the device, Gillispie proved himself to be a candidate for a lung transplant; without it he would not ha ve been strong enough for the surgery, Zwischenberger
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