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It will also voice concerns about the impact on Ecmo (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) mortality rates.
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Glenfield is the only hospital in the UK with a mobile Ecmo service for children.
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The doctors will use an Ecmo machine that acts as a heart and lung for the patients.
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This procedure is known as ECMO -- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- and is used occasionally as a bridge to lung transplantation.
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Previous Health Secretary Andrew Lansley decided to move the ECMO department only after the decision to relocate the children's congenital heart surgery services had been made.
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The Ecmo equipment is used when a patient has life-threatening cardiac or respiratory problems that prevent their heart or lungs from working normally, a hospital spokesman said.
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"ECMO and heart surgery go hand-in-hand", said the Conservative MP.
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The JCPCT said creating fewer and larger centres would improve the service and recommended that Glenfield's Children's Congenital Heart Surgery unit and Children's ECMO equipment, should go to Birmingham.
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Mr Garnier, who on Monday led a parliamentary debate about plans to close the units, said he welcomed the review but said ECMO and heart surgery were inextricably linked.
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"If a child is too sick to move, Glenfield have taken this extra step to create the mobile Ecmo service to deliver the treatment to the child's bedside in any hospital, " a hospital spokesman said.
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The Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has been asked to look in detail at how the decisions were reached and report its findings by 28 February, but will not look at plans to move the ECMO unit, the largest in the UK, from Glenfield to Birmingham.
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