Towards the design and implementation of a human circulatory system for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation simulation

Publication date: Available online 17 December 2018Source: The Egyptian Journal of Critical Care MedicineAuthor(s): Uzair Khurshid, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Aiman Abducarim, Sakib Mahmud, Omrane Abdallah, Elshaikh Mohamed, Faycal Bensaali, Abbes Amira, Abdullah Alsalemi, Ali Ait Hssain, Guillaume Alinier, Ibrahim HassanAbstractExtracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is a lifesaving procedure developed for the care of patients with short-term respiratory and/or cardiac issues (MacLaren et al., 2011). ECMO patients must be monitored twenty-four hours a day by an ECMO-trained multidisciplinary team. The trained healthcare professional needs to watch over fifty variables and rapidly intervene to assess and resolve any given emergency. Hence hands on training is very important for ECMO professionals to develop rapid and correct actions upon different scenarios. Simulation based training (SBT) offers ECMO practitioners an opportunity to develop the skills needed for the initiation of the ECMO procedure and the care of ECMO patients without exposing patients to undue risks (Al Disi et al., 2018). For ECMO to work, cannulation is required to reroute the blood flow to the machine rather than the lung and/or heart. Cannulation is the insertion of a cannula through the blood vessels. In collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the main healthcare provider in Qatar, the aim of this project is to develop an effective, economical realistic, user-friendly, low-cost, and a multi-fu...
Source: The Egyptian Journal of Critical Care Medicine - Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research