Extracorporeal procedure
An extracorporeal procedure 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.
Circulatory procedures
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 apparatuses carrying the blood outside the body are collectively termed the extracorporeal circuit.- Intra-surgical cell salvage
- Apheresis
- * Plasmapheresis vs cytapheresis
- * centrifugal apheresis vs filtration apheresis vs adsorption
- * cascade apheresis
- Hemoadsorption/Hemoperfusion
- Plasma Adsorption
- Aquapheresis
- Hemodialysis
- Hemofiltration
- Hemodiafiltration
- Renal replacement therapy
- * Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
- Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal
- Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Cardiopulmonary bypass during open heart surgery
- Liver support system
- Biospleen and other extracorporeal bionic or non bionic spleen-like blood cleansing device
Other procedures
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.
Extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control is a process by which brain function is kept intact, keeping the organ alive and functioning independent from the rest of the body for several hours.