Vittorio Scaravilli, Stefan Kreyer, Katharina Linden, Slava Belenkiy, Antonio Pesenti, Alberto Zanella, Leopoldo C Cancio, Andriy I Batchinsky
Acidification of blood entering a membrane lung (ML) with lactic acid enhances CO2 removal (VCO2ML). We compared the effects of infusion of acetic, citric, and lactic acids on VCO2ML. Three sheep were connected to a custom-made circuit, consisting of a Hemolung device (Alung Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA), a hemofilter (NxStage, NxStage Medical, Lawrence, MA), and a peristaltic pump recirculating ultrafiltrate before the ML. Blood flow was set at 250 ml/min, gas flow (GF) at 10 L/min, and recirculating ultrafiltrate flow at 100 ml/min...
September 2015: ASAIO Journal: a Peer-reviewed Journal of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs