Extracorporeal

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An extracorporeal is a medical procedure which is performed outside the body. Extracorporeal devices are the artificial organs that remain outside the body while treating a patient. Extracorporeal devices are useful in hemodialysis and cardiac surgery. [1]

Circulatory procedures[edit]

A procedure in which blood is taken from a patient's circulation to have a process applied to it before it is returned to the circulation. All of the apparatus carrying the blood outside the body is termed the extracorporeal circuit.

Other procedures[edit]

Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL), which is unrelated to other extracorporeal therapies, in that the device used to break up the kidney stones is held completely outside the body, whilst the lithotripsy itself occurs inside the body.

Extracorporeal radiotherapy, where a large bone with a tumour is removed and given a dose far exceeding what would otherwise be safe to give to a patient.[2][3]

Extracorporealc pulsatile circulatory control (EPCC) is a process by which brain function (animal model) is kept intact, keeping the organ alive and functioning independent from the rest of the body for several hours.[4]

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  1. ^ Churchill Livingstone's mini encyclopaedia of nursing. Internet Archive. Edinburgh ; New York : Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. 2005. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-443-07487-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ Anacak, Y.; Sabah, D.; Demirci, S.; Kamer, S. (2007), "Intraoperative extracorporeal irradiation and re-implantation of involved bone for the treatment of musculoskeletal tumors.", J Exp Clin Cancer Res, 26 (4): 571–574, PMID 18365554
  3. ^ Puri, Ajay; Gulia, Ashish; Agarwal, MG; Jambhekar, NA; Laskar, S (2010), "Extracorporeal irradiated tumor bone: A reconstruction option in diaphyseal Ewing's sarcomas", Indian J Orthop, 44 (4): 390–396, doi:10.4103/0019-5413.69310, PMC 2947725, PMID 20924479
  4. ^ Shariff, Muhammed; Dobariya, Aksharkumar; Albaghdadi, Obada; Awkal, Jacob; Moussa, Hadi; Reyes, Gabriel; Syed, Mansur; Hart, Robert; Longfellow, Cameron; Douglass, Debra; El Ahmadieh, Tarek Y.; Good, Levi B.; Jakkamsetti, Vikram; Kathote, Gauri; Angulo, Gus (2023-08-25). "Maintenance of pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control (EPCC)". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 13942. Bibcode:2023NatSR..1313942S. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-39344-7. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 10457326. PMID 37626089.

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