Interhospital transfer of a patient undergoing extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal.
Extracorporeal circulation techniques are being used increasingly in patients with acute cardiac or pulmonary failure. Some of these patients may subsequently require transportation, which has limited the use of these techniques in hospitals without on site transplantation facilities. We report a case of adult respiratory distress syndrome that demonstrates a solution to this problem.
Kee
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Department of Anaesthesia, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London.
Sedgwick
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J
Bristow
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D000293:Adolescent; D000401:Aircraft; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods*
D002245:Carbon Dioxide