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 language | English |
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Article number | 106003 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine |
Volume | 202 |
Early online date | 14 Feb 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2021 |
Keywords
- mechanical ventilation
- pressure volume loop
- lumped parameter model
- software simulation
- cannulation
- percutaneous left ventricular support