The new frontiers of Extracorporeal Perfusion: Aerospace technology in the operating room

Abstract

A new Heart-Lung Machine that integrated hardware systems of highest technological level and software that processes patient data provided by advanced non-invasive monitoring was born to improve the quality of care and the outcome of patients undergoing  extracorporeal circulation. We are in era of “Goal Directed Perfusion” and the care of clinicians no longer based on theoretical  calculations but on measured parameters whose values are limited to a very narrow therapeutic range (determined by scientific  evidence) indexed for each patient in each particular clinical condition.