Artificial lung

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Cystic fibrosis

• Interstitial lung disease

• Acute respiratory distress syndrome

4

1. Non-invsaive ventilation

2. Mechanical ventilation

3. ECMO or ECCO2R

4. Transplantation

• Task: artificial lung (membrane oxygenator)

  • o2 enrichment

  • c02 removal

  • heat exchange

• Short gas diffusion distance

• High specific surface

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• Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) devices are specialized ECMOdevices that predominantly focus on CO2 removal.

• In combination with mechanical ventilation: lower tidal volumes required

• Driven by patient‘s cardiac output Pumpless

• Dead zone formation

• Encased autonomous zones

• Bypassing and high fluid velocity on the walls due to packing voids

Minimal surfaces which are periodic in three dimensions