Extracorporeal membrane oxigenation

Abstract

Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a strategy to maintain the proper gas exchange that is commonly used during cardiopulmonary surgeries, whose current tendency is to increase the spectrum of acute diseases outside the operating room that significantly compromise the oxygenation, ventilation or circulation. This therapy supplies the heart, lungs, or both, totally or partially, and depending on its configuration, it can be applied to improve respiratory (venous-venous), circulatory (venous-arterial ECMO) or both, providing time for Damaged tissue recovers. ECMO is a therapy commonly used in North America and Europe, however, in Mexico it is just beginning to be part of a promising future.