CADAVERIC ECMO CANNULATION SIMULATOR

Pitfalls in percutaneous ECMO cannulation

INTRODUCTION This observational report depicts typical problems of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation from a large case series of a single center. METHODS We analysed our experience with 720 consecutive patients receiving veno-venous or veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation focusing on the spectrum of complications occurring in a subset of 159 patients treated with pe...

Whole Body Cardiovascular Modeling for Ecmo Training Simulator

INTRODUCTION An extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) is a mechanical circuit that consists of a pump and oxygenator. In its typical configuration, an ECMO receives deoxygenated blood from the venous end of the circulatory system, oxygenates and warms the blood, and pumps the blood back into the arterial end of the circulation. Performing the role of the lungs in blood oxygenation and of th...

Fate of the lower extremity in patients with VA-ECMO via femoral cannulation

ECMO or no ECMO: Do no harm.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used in the management of neonates with life-threatening cardiorespiratory diseases since 19821. Several studies have demonstrated that ECMO promotes normal survival in neonates with respiratory failure2-4. After decades of discussion, ECMO is now well accepted as a standard of treatment for neonatal respiratory failure refractory to conventio...

Veno-venous two-site cannulation versus veno-venous double lumen ECMO: complications and survival in infants with respiratory failure

Objective. To compare complications and survival between the two-site veno-venous versus the veno-venous double lumen extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in infants with respiratory failure. Methods. The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO, Ann Arbor, Michigan) provided the registry database, collected between 1999-2009 for this research project. During this period, 9086 infan...