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Successful prehospital ECMO in drowning resuscitation after prolonged submersion
- Source :
- Resuscitation Plus, Vol 19, Iss , Pp 100685- (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2024.
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Abstract
- An 18-year-old drowning victim was successfully resuscitated using prehospital veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). Despite 24 min of submersion in water with a surface temperature of 15 °C, the patient was cannulated on-scene and transported to a trauma center. After ICU admission on VA-ECMO, he was decannulated and extubated by day 5. He was transferred to a peripheral hospital on day 6 and discharged home after 3.5 weeks with favorable neurological outcome of a Cerebral Performance Categories (CPC) score of 1 out of 5. This case underscores the potential of prehospital ECMO in drowning cases within a well-equipped emergency response system.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26665204 and 43366899
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 100685-
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Resuscitation Plus
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.0bf0b93b33d84bea87e00a4336689945
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2024.100685