Extension of cardiopulmonary bypass outside the operating room as a short-term bridge to recovery "the poor man's ECMO".

This report describes the use of conventional cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) circuit beyond the operating room to the critical care unit to provide cardiopulmonary support for patients requiring emergent resuscitation as well as short-term support for rest and recovery of the heart. We modified the CPB circuit and created a closed extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit using a conventional oxygenator excluding the venous reservoir. We believe that this technique provides a short-term mechanical support and also acts as a bridge to recovery, or a bridge to decision, in very limited resource settings.

Nuclease activity and interaction studies of unsymmetrical binuclear Ni(II) complexes with CT-DNA and BSA.

New unsymmetrical binuclear nickel(II) complexes [Ni2L(1-5)] (ClO4)2 (1-5) were synthesized by using [NiL] [(3-((9E)-(2-((E)-(3-formyl-2-olato-5-methylbenzylideneamino)methyl) phenylimino)methyl)-3-formyl-5-methyl-2-olato)nickel(II)] with various diamines like 1,2-diaminoethane (L(1)), 1,3-diaminopropane (L(2)), 1,4-diaminobutane (L(3)), 1,2-diaminobenzene (L(4)) and 1,8-diaminonaphthalene (L(5)) and characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopic methods. The molecular structure of binuclear nickel(II) complex 1 is determined by a single crystal X-ray diffraction method. Cyclic voltammograms of binuclear Ni(II) complexes exhibit two quasi-reversible reduction waves in the cathodic region and two oxidation waves in the anodic region.

(Z)-3-[(2-Amino-benz-yl)amino]-1-phenyl-but-2-en-1-one.

In the title compound, C17H18N2O, the aromatic rings are almost normal to one another, making a dihedral angle of 89.00 (8)°. There is an intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond in the mol-ecule enclosing an S(6) ring motif.