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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Bras Pneumol. 2012 Feb;38(1):7-12.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe hypoxemia: time for reappraisal?
[Article in English, Portuguese]
Azevedo LC, Park M, Costa EL, Santos EV, Hirota A, Taniguchi LU, Schettino GD, Amato MB, Carvalho CR.
Source
Hospital S?rio-Liban?s.
Abstract
In 2009, during the influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, there were many reported cases of pulmonary infection with severe hypoxemia that was refractory to the ventilatory strategies and rescue therapies commonly used to treat patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. Many of those cases were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which renewed international interest in the technique. The Extracorporeal Support Study Group was created in order to practice ECMO and to employ it in the treatment of patients with severe hypoxemia. In this article, we discuss the indications for using ECMO and report the case of a patient with refractory hypoxemia who was successfully treated with ECMO.
PMID:
22407035
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22407035
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe hypoxemia: time for reappraisal?
[Article in English, Portuguese]
Azevedo LC, Park M, Costa EL, Santos EV, Hirota A, Taniguchi LU, Schettino GD, Amato MB, Carvalho CR.
Source
Hospital S?rio-Liban?s.
Abstract
In 2009, during the influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, there were many reported cases of pulmonary infection with severe hypoxemia that was refractory to the ventilatory strategies and rescue therapies commonly used to treat patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. Many of those cases were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which renewed international interest in the technique. The Extracorporeal Support Study Group was created in order to practice ECMO and to employ it in the treatment of patients with severe hypoxemia. In this article, we discuss the indications for using ECMO and report the case of a patient with refractory hypoxemia who was successfully treated with ECMO.
PMID:
22407035
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22407035