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Details about blood grouping and its composition.

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  BLOOD GROUPING Blood is a fluid connective tissue and the most crucial component of the circulatory system. In a healthy person, approximately 5 litters (12 pints) of blood circulates throughout their body.                                                               Composition of blood  It consists of erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets suspended in plasma along with the millions of different molecules with its own specific roles and functions. Even though components of blood are the same for all humans, there are various blood types. In fact, there are more than 40 blood groups, but all of them are not clinically significant. The discovery of the ABO blood group created great excitement as until then, all blood had been ...
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ECMO(Extra Corporial Membrane Oxygeneration).When do need it?how does it work on our body?

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What is ECMO? ECMO Stands for Extra Corporial Membrane Oxygeneration. A life support machine that replaces the function of the heart and lungs. These patients are the sickest of all patients in any critical care unit and will invariably have a prolonged course and rehabilitation When do need it? when the heart cannot pump blood and the lungs cannot provide enough oxygen or take out the carbon dioxide How does it work on our body? It pumps blood from the patient's body to an artificial lung which adds oxygen to it and further removes carbon dioxide and it further pumps the blood back to the patients body just like the heart does which is done via a centrifugal pump. Is the patient awake on an ECMO? Generally no. Patients that undergo ECMO are typically connected to a ventilator through a breathing tube down their mouth or nose and have received pain medications and sedatives. When sedates and do not feel the tubes going into their veins and arteries. And when his or h...
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