Odisha: 1st ever, SCB uses ECMO machine for surgery
In a first ever, the SCB Medical College and Hospital here in Cuttack has conducted a surgery on ECMO machine support.
Cuttack: In a first ever, the SCB Medical College and Hospital here in Cuttack has conducted a surgery on ECMO machine support.
The operation was performed in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. This is the first ever in Odisha. Cuttack SCB Medical Center had nine ECMO machines which were not in use after the Covid wave.
However, a tumor was removed from the lung of a 21-year-old youth from Deogarh district of Odisha through a complex surgery with the help of an ECMO machine.
It is worth mentioning that now the patient is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Because of the tumor in the trachea, it was not possible to give him anesthesia, so the operation was performed with the help of an ECMO machine.
In the future, more and more operations will be done with the help of ECMO machines, said the head of the department, Professor Dr. Manoj Patnaik.
In extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), blood is pumped outside the body to a heart-lung machine that removes carbon dioxide and sends oxygen-filled blood back to tissues in the body. Blood flows from the right side of the heart to the membrane oxygenator in the heart-lung machine, and then is rewarmed and sent back to the body (Excerpt from: Mayo Clinic).
Ms Kalinga