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perflubron

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perflubron
LiquiVent® Neonatology A highly oxygenated perfluorocarbon liquid intrapulmonary ventilating agent, used in neonates with severe RDS and adults with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, which may prevent O2 toxicity, ↓ barotrauma due to improved dynamic compliance, ↑ oxygenation. See Liquid ventilation, Respiratory distress syndrome.


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Colorless and odorless, perflubron can be used in place of surfactant to bathe the lungs.
Colorless and odorless, perflubron can take the place of surfactant.
They reported that Oxycyte appears to be effective in reducing brain damage caused by stroke in rats, and it does not produce hyperinflated, noncollapsible lungs as does perflubron.
 
 
 
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