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Cardiac intensive care unit in miniature formatBy Andrea BannertMany lives can be saved only in a special clinic. For patients who need a heart-lung machine, the transport is the biggest hurdle. A new portable device to change the© Sergey Nivens/Fotolia.comAt the Christmas party, Sabine H. is * suddenly bad. When she goes home, must pass to the 37-year-old, gets sharp pain in the chest. The diagnosis of Notarztes: Cardiogenic shock - the heart not pumping. "That I got through that, I owe to this device", she says, pointing to a large shoe box equipment rises from a bunch of hoses. The apparatus is a heart-lung machine in miniature format. The intensive care unit for on the road for the first time at the Munich University Clinic presented.The device takes over the functions of the heart and lungs. It sucks the blood from the body, enrich it with oxygen and pumps it back into the arteries. The helper moved up to six litres per minute.Shoe box versus chest of drawers© Frank bornThe new system fits into the small red bagSuch machines are not new. But usually they take as much space as a high chest of drawers. They are used in the hospital, to perform operations on the heart not beating, where heart and lungs need to be switched off. The 70 kilograms colossus then takes over their task. He can be difficult in an ambulance with himself - in the helicopter which is even impossible due to the large weight.The bio engineer Frank Born has developed the heart-lung machine in miniature format. She weighs only 10 kg - every helicopter can do it. "With the system patients who were previously not transportable, can be placed in special clinics", explained born. And it can save lives.Tragic death sentenceThe trigger for the idea with the portable life saver was a tragic experience: seven years ago, a young athlete with serious heart problems at the clinic was hospitalized where born at that time worked. Actually the patient would have to be laid as soon as possible in a specialized center. But because his own heart with a heart-lung machine support only worked, it was not possible. The 34-year-old died. If there was already the mini intensive care unit, he was maybe still alive.© Frank bornThe inventor of the heart-lung machine: Frank BornShort-term takeover of multiple organ functionSo far, there is the system only at the Hospital of the Maxi Milan University in Munich. There, a team of experts is available to carry out the transport of seriously ill patients. Most recently they brought a German patient by Kuwait in the German heart centre Berlin - flight time: seven hours. In addition to a heart-lung-therapy, the patient needed also a kidney replacement. Born for this installed a Hemofilter which assumes the function of the kidney. Also, the liver can be relieved with the system: A Cytosorb filter filter pollutants such as Interleukins and Cytokines in the blood. "With the mini heart-lung machine the hospital to patients such as Sabine H., who would have been otherwise celebrated their last Christmas", born says.© Frank bornThe mini intensive care unit in use* Name changed by the editors.Source: Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich hospital

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