1. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for Hypothermic Cardiac Deterioration: A Case Series.
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Niehaus MT, Pechulis RM, Wu JK, Frei S, Hong JJ, Sandhu RS, and Greenberg MR
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Young Adult, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Heart Arrest therapy, Hypothermia therapy
- Abstract
Accidental hypothermia can lead to untoward cardiac manifestations and arrest. This report presents a case series of severe accidental hypothermia with cardiac complications in three emergency patients who were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and survived after re-warming. The aim of this discussion was to encourage more clinicians to consider ECMO as a re-warming therapy for severe hypothermia with circulatory collapse and to prompt discussion about decreasing the barriers to its use. Niehaus MT , Pechulis RM , Wu JK , Frei S , Hong JJ , Sandhu RS , Greenberg MR . Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for hypothermic cardiac deterioration: a case series. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(5):570-571.
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- 2016
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