Extracorporeal blood pumping during heart-lung bypass.
This article describes three different types of extracorporeal blood pumps and the physiology of blood flow and analyzes the circulatory changes introduced by the pumping during heart-lung bypass. Associated clinical problems are briefly discussed.
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D001775:Blood Circulation; D002315:Cardiopulmonary Bypass; D006355:Heart-Lung Machine / Q000145:classification*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans