Feasibility of the area reduction post-closure technique for bedside weaning of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Chen Xu, Guo-xiong Xu, Yi-fei Cao, Lei Chen, Yi-qi Jin · 2025
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Description
Chen Xu and co-authors test a bedside way to free patients from a heart-lung machine without open vessel repair. Veno-arterial ECMO pumps blood for failing hearts, but its big artery tubes leave big holes. Their study reviews a year of weaning cases at one center. Eighteen patients were closed with two stitch devices after the tubes came out. Success meant full bleeding stop with no rescue surgery.
Every case closed cleanly. The median age was 72, and the whole close took about ten minutes. One patient bled mildly and settled with pressure alone. No vessel narrowing, false bulges, or infections followed. The team casts the area-reduction close as a safe bedside standard, sparing frail patients an open groin repair.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chen Xu, Guo-xiong Xu, Yi-fei Cao, Lei Chen, Yi-qi Jin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |