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01.04.2014 | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiac failure and cardiac arrest in adults?
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 4/2014
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is one of several mechanical circulatory support devices used for patients with cardiac failure (Fig. 1). Advances in both extracorporeal technology and cannulation techniques, which have led to an improved risk–benefit profile, have increased the use and broadened the potential applications for ECMO in these circumstances. Additional data is ultimately needed to select the most appropriate patients and circumstances for extracorporeal support [1].
Fig. 1
Femoral venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Venoarterial ECMO involves draining venous blood from a central vein, pumping it through a gas exchange membrane, and reinfusing the oxygenated blood into a central artery. In contrast to venovenous ECMO, which reinfuses oxygenated blood into a central vein and provides only respiratory support, venoarterial ECMO provides both respiratory and hemodynamic support
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