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Category Archives: ECLS
LUCAS
Here is some i-phone footage from the OR that demonstrates how effective mechanical compressions can be. The patient is a hypothermic cardiac arrest victim. He was put on LUCAS2 as a bridge to ECMO-cannulation. On this transesophageal echo view the … Continue reading
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THE MEN WHO STARE AT TINY GOATS
Probably to make up for the killing of goats by the First Earth Battalion, research groups have been keeping goat fetuses alive outside the womb, incubated and on ECMO via the umbilical chord.
THE ECMO TRILOGY
All you wanted to know. A great introduction to ECMO by Hergen Buscher, a German intensivist who lives and practices in Sydney. BONUS: It’s like listening to Schwarzenegger talking on ECMO! Click to see the full trilogy.
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THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation or ECMO is more and more referred to as Extra Corporeal Life Support or ECLS, due to it being used more and more as a V-A system, supporting the circulation as well as the respiration. There … Continue reading
Posted in Anesthesia, ECLS, ECMO, Intensive Care
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ECMO CPR
Cardiac arrest is still treated with medieval methods. And, not surprisingly, with low survival. The best we have to offer is an orderly’s rhythmical crushing of ribs and chest, with a few squirts of adrenaline thrown in for good measure. … Continue reading
ECMO CPR
Hjertestans behandles fremdeles med middelaldermetoder, og ikke overraskende med meget lav overlevelse. Det beste vi har å tilby er rytmisk portørknusing av thorax, eventuelt kombinert med noen skvett adrenalin. I det 21. århundrede må det da finnes en bedre metode?
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