A membrane artificial lung performs gas exchange between blood and a gas via
the
membrane by flowing the blood in one side of the membrane and flowing oxygen or
an oxygen-containing gas in the other side of the membrane. The membrane has a
hollow fiber membrane of poly-4-methylpentene-1 and an oxygen permeation rate Q(O2)
at 25 C. of from 110-6 to 310-3 (cm3(STP)/cm2seccmHg)
and an ethanol flux of from 0.1 to 100 ml/minm2. The membrane
has, in the side of the blood flow, a surface having an ionic complex derived from:
quaternary aliphatic alkylammonium salts; and heparin or a heparin derivative.
The quaternary alkylammonium salts are a quaternary aliphatic alkylammonium salt
having from 22 to 26 carbon atoms in total and a quaternary aliphatic alkylammonium
salt having from 37 to 40 carbon atoms in total.