Blood Recirculation and vvECMO

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: ARDS; Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Treatments: Other: Measurment of blood recirculation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03200314

EA208317

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective, observational study will be performed measuring recirculation of blood through a veno-venous Extracoporeal Membrane Oxygenation (vvECMO) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) on vvECMO. ECMO blood flow will be adjusted with respect to recirculation.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients aged 18 years or older
• ARDS
• veno-venous ECMO

Exclusion criteria

• age < 18 years
• hemodynamic instability during measurement of recirculation
• pregnancy
• inability to obtain patient's consent or consent of legal guardian