The effect of excessive gas to blood ratios in an ECMO oxygenator.

In an ex vivo setting, increasing GBFR above 2:1 in a paediatric oxygenator, and to a GBFR of 2:1 in an adult oxygenator did not significantly increase gas phase pressures, and no oxygenator membrane rupture was observed. There were no associations between gas flow rates and GME production.