Juniper Publishers-Open Access Journal of Surgery

ECMO in Emergency Medicine Authored by Yan Wang ECMO is the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the aim to provide extracorporeal life support in both cardiac and respiratory function, it is an important therapy in Cardiacvascular Medicine and Emergency Medicine. When patients unable to keep organ basic required oxygen or blood exchange, ECMO is used to remove patient’s blood into artificial tube system on oxygenation and detoxication exchange. ECMO can apply to children and adult for a life-sustain therapy, and it is the choice to allow time for intrinsic recovery of heart and lung from varied critical diseases. ECMO is the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the aim to provide extracorporeal life support in both cardiac and respiratory function; it is an important therapy in Cardiovascular Medicine and Emergency Medicine. When patients unable to keep organ basic required oxygen or blood exchange, ECMO is used to remove patient’s blood into artificial tube s

Use of a Cheap Bag for Specimen Retrieval during Diagnostic Laparoscopy Authored by Giovanni D Tebala Diagnostic laparoscopy with biopsy is a useful tool in the diagnosis and staging of abdominal conditions, such as gastric cancer [1,2]. The biopsied tissue should be retrieved and sent to the laboratory in the best conditions, avoiding excessive crushing and lymph node biopsy should provide the whole intact node. To reduce pain and wall complications it would be preferable that the operative ports are 5mm or less. Unfortunately, retrieving a tissue specimen through a small port makes it to be crushed and often not suitable to be analyzed. Moreover, no 5mm laparoscopic bag is commercially available and there is the risk of tumour seeding if the tissue is extracted without a bag. One should use a 10mm trocar to retrieve the specimen in a bag, but this increases invasiveness and costs of the operation. Surgical gloves have been used to retrieve even huge specimens in l