OC01.05: Feasibility of the short‐term physiologic support of the late‐gestation miniature pig fetus using umbilical cannulation, a pumpless extreacorporeal membrane oxygenator and fluid incubation

To support the late-gestation miniature pig fetus using an artificial placenta system for a minimum of four hours using in utero physiologic umbilical flow and blood gas measurements for reference. At 105 days gestation, eight sows (weight range 53-79 kg) were studied and six fetuses were cannulated (weights range: 490-940g). The median duration of ECMO was 30 min (range 20-270 mins). In the most successful experiment, mean umbilical flow was...