Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal in Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

Overview

The conventional treatment for Severe acute exacerbation of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease including noninvasive respiratory support, invasive respiratory support, etc, but there are many kinds of limitations and complications. Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal is a life support technology, which can effectively remove CO2. Recently some clinical studies have showed that ECCO2R can effectively improve the AECOPD patient's respiratory failure, avoid intubation and removal of endotracheal intubation. We performed a study to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of ECCO2R in the treatment of AECOPD patients.

With the development of technology, ECCO2R is not difficult to implement in intensive care unit. Many recently clinical studies have showed that ECCO2R can effectively remove CO2, reduce patient breathing work, improve the patient respiratory failure, and avoid endotracheal intubation. But there are also treated failure and high incidence of complications such as bleeding in the AECOPD patients with ECCO2R treatment, and the treatment related to airway management are less mentioned. Therefore, we set a more strict inclusion criteria in AECOPD patients and evaluate the clinical effectiveness and associated risk of ECCO2R in the treatment of AECOPD.

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