save-lung machines, for what in technical jargon is called ECMO (Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation), "are available to citizens if the need arose." Although "their use in case of flu or chest infections is quite exceptional." To reassure the public, the availability of the equipment that the Peninsula is keeping alive the young man admitted to Monza for complications of influenza A, is the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery (SICC). "Such equipment - recall experts in a statement - they had their clinical onset in the 50s (the first use was May 6, 1953 with a device invented by John Gibbon, a heart surgeon, and six engineers from IBM). Since then more than 90% of cardiac surgery is done with and through these machines. Experience in cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass equipment has led to enormous and essential progress. The use of these machines to treat respiratory disorders has been developed in the '80s in Milan, thanks to research begun by Professor Luciano Gattinoni, today's primary anesthetics Foundation Policlinico of Milan. "Since then, Italy is in forefront international technological development and clinical development of this sector and in cardiac surgery, "says the drought. And" although the use of such equipment is very rare and quite exceptional for the treatment of respiratory infections, it is not relevant to support activities in cases of severe cardiac heart failure. For this reason, virtually every center of cardiac surgery and intensive care centers with extensive experience in the treatment of severe pulmonary dysfunction are already equipped with ECMO equipment and currently able to support the cardio-pulmonary or lung only. "Drought is also recalled that, in 'scope of its training programs, also organized last year an intensive course di aggiornamento per l'Ecmo in tre sessioni (Nord, Centro e Sud Italia), con i maggiori esperti mondiali e italiani. L'esperienza didattica ha permesso di redigere un documento multimediale che la società sta per rendere disponibile ai propri soci e al personale coinvolto nell'utilizzo di tali dispositivi.
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