ECMO assistance during mechanical ventilation: effects induced on energetic and haemodynamic variables

Beatrice De Lazzari, Attilio Iacovoni, Khosrow Mottaghy, Massimo Capoccia, Roberto Badagliacca, Carmine Dario Vizza, Claudio De Lazzari

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Abstract

Background and Objective: Simulation in cardiovascular medicine may help clinicians understand the important events occurring during mechanical ventilation and circulatory support. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant number of patients have required hospital admission to tertiary referral centres for concomitant mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Nevertheless, the management of ventilated patients on circulatory support can be quite challenging. Therefore, we sought to review the management of these patients based on the analysis of haemodynamic and energetic parameters using numerical simulations generated by a software package named CARDIOSIM

Original languageEnglish
Article number106003
Number of pages14
JournalComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Volume202
Early online date14 Feb 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2021

Keywords

  • mechanical ventilation
  • pressure volume loop
  • lumped parameter model
  • software simulation
  • cannulation
  • percutaneous left ventricular support

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