Extracorporeal Life Support Training Manual

Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor of China in the middle of the third millennium BCE, wrote one of the earliest and most complete texts of medicine. The Neijing or Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine is an extraordinary collection of wisdom seeking to balance and improve one's natural life force.1 The western world thanks Anaximenes of Miletus who first described air in the sixth century BCE.2 Greece continued to dominate the advancement of medicine, and in the fifth century BCE, they created a clear separation away from divine medicine, and observation theory was established. The Greeks are credited with establishing therapies to balance, remove, and replace circulating substances in the body.3