Echocardiography for adult patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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چکیده
Venoarterial (VA) and venovenous (VV) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support is increasingly being used in recent years in the adult population. Owing to the underlying disease precipitating severe respiratory or cardiac failure, echocardiography plays an important role in the management of these patients. Nevertheless, there are currently no guidelines on the use of echocardiography in the setting of ECMO support. This review describes the current state of application of echocardiography for patients supported with both VA and VV ECMO.
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Erratum to: Echocardiography for adult patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Upon publication of this article [1] it has been found that the additional files published out of order by mistake. This has now been corrected. In addition we updated a minor error in the legend for additional file 24: ‘Additional file 24. Video S19. Patient on VA ECMO. Parasternal short axis at the level of the aortic valve of the same patient as in Additional files 22 and 23. LA vent cannula...
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