Hemofiltration during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 04:56
in Health & Medicine
Haemofiltration has already been shown to improve fluid balance in children treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) but now researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care have reported that continuous haemofiltration significantly reduces ECMO duration in newborns.