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Fifty years ago, U-M surgeon Robert Bartlett helped invent a life-saving procedure called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Now researchers are using the next-generation of ECMO to give lungs a new life.
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Ann Arbor / Detroit / Grand Rapids / /

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U-M’s Extracorporeal Life Support Research Laboratory / XVIVO Perfusion / U-M’s Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Research Laboratory / /

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North America / Europe / /

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United States / Canada / Spain / /

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Boston Children’s Hospital / /

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clinical applications / medical insurance / cumbersome devices / ex vivo technology / plastic devices / organ banking / perfusion solution / /

MedicalCondition

acute respiratory failure / COPD / lung and kidney failure / pulmonary fibrosis / injury / cardiac arrest / cystic fibrosis / Traumatic injuries / pneumonia / cancer / chronic progressive lung diseases / acute lung disorders / severe lung disease / /

MedicalTreatment

surgery / organ transplants / lung transplant / ECMO / CPR / lung transplants / organ transplant / Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / heart transplant / /

Organization

National Institute of Health / Medical School / Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network / Boston Children’s Hospital / U.S. Food and Drug Administration / FDA / Department of Surgery / University of Toronto / /

Person

Sally Pobojewski / Alvaro Rojas-Pena / Henry Ford / Mark Meyerhoff / William R. Lynch / Jeffrey Punch / Robert Bartlett / Leisa Thompson / Shaf Keshavjee / Lucas Witer / /

Position

principal investigator / physician / professor of surgery / professor emeritus / research investigator / Professor of Chemistry / surgeon / professor of surgery and head / associate professor / U-M surgeon / U-M research investigator / /

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Michigan / /

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ECLS technology / transplantation / ECMO-based technology / ex vivo technology / ECMO/ CPR protocol / /

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www.medicineatmichigan.org/magazine / /

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