Oxygenation-ozonation of blood during extracorporeal circulation: in vitro efficiency of a new gas exchange device
Bocci V, Zanardi I, Travagli V, et al. Artificial Organs, 2007.
- Study type
- In vitro
- People studied
- No participants reported (laboratory study)
- Published
- 2007, Artificial Organs
- Identifiers
- PMID 17725702, DOI 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00448.x
What the authors reported
Bench testing of a new hollow-fiber gas exchange device (L001) for EBOO, using a buffered saline solution containing KI rather than blood, showed efficient gas transfer with minimal foreign surface contact and negligible priming volume across the tested parameters.
What limits this result
In vitro test on a saline solution, not blood or patients, with no clinical outcomes; PubMed lists no study-design publication type, so "in vitro" is inferred from the described bench methodology; authored by the EBOO technique's developers.
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