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An extracorporeal medical procedure is a medical procedure
Medical procedure

A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems.A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring or diagnosis a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test....
 which is performed outside the body.








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An extracorporeal medical procedure is a medical procedure
Medical procedure

A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems.A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring or diagnosis a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test....
 which is performed outside the body.

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 apparatus carrying the blood outside the body is termed the extracorporeal circuit.
  • Hemodialysis
    Hemodialysis

    File:Plugged into dialysis.jpgIn medicine, hemodialysis is a method for removing waste products such as potassium and urea, as well as free water from the blood when the kidneys are in renal failure....
  • Hemofiltration
    Hemofiltration

    In medicine, hemofiltration, also haemofiltration, is a renal replacement therapy similar to hemodialysis which is used almost exclusively in the intensive care setting....
  • Plasmapheresis
    Plasmapheresis

    Plasmapheresis is the removal, treatment, and return of blood plasma from Circulatory system. It is thus an extracorporeal therapy. The method can also be used to collect plasma for further manufacturing into a variety of medications....
  • Apheresis
    Apheresis

    Apheresis is a medical technology in which the blood of a donor or patient is passed through an apparatus that separates out one particular constituent and returns the remainder to the circulation....
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
    Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

    In intensive care medicine, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is an extracorporeal technique of providing both cardiac and respiratory support oxygen to patients whose heart and lungs are so severely diseased or damaged that they can no longer serve their function....
     (ECMO)
  • Cardiopulmonary bypass during open heart surgery.


Other procedures

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), which is unrelated to other extracorporeal therapies, in that the device used to break up the kidney stones is held completely outside the body, whilst the lithotripsy itself occurs inside the body.

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.

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