[sowbug]

Not asking about DIY, but since you are more knowledgeable about medicine than I, you might know. Dialysis exists. Could a variant of a dialysis machine oxygenate blood and scrub it of carbon dioxide to treat an ARDS patient? Is the main problem that dialysis can't move a high enough volume of blood to keep a person alive?

[dillondoyle]

Isn't that basically what ECMO is? like a super intense way to do all the things we need to live via our blood outside the body

[iancmceachern]

Yes, it's also what a "heart lung machine" is. They even use oxygenators that are very similar in construction to dialyzers used in dialysis.

[DoreenMichele]

https://www.rtmagazine.com/disorders-diseases/chronic-pulmon...