Louisa in London – Prehospital Lessons from LTC2015
The London Trauma Conference remains up there on my list of ‘must go’ conferences to attend. It marks the end […]
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ECLS
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Left Ventricular Assist Device for Cardiac Arrest?
Image: Ventricular assist device by Madhero88, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons An interesting case report by Dr Heidlebaugh and […]
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Prehospital ECLS – it's happening
Patients with refractory (>30 mins) cardiac arrest underwent prehospital cannulation for extracorporeal life support in a French feasibility study. A […]
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ECMO for paediatric cardiac arrest
The Taiwanese are at it again with their extracorporeal life support. This time, they report their outcomes in children who […]
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Surgical treatment for acute massive pulmonary embolism
A recent paper reminds us that surgery is an option in the management of massive pulmonary embolism(1), to be considered […]
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Image: Ecmo schema-1- by Jürgen Schaub. de:User:Mr.Flintstone, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons You have a patient in cardiac […]
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Pre-hospital ECMO
Two cases are reported of the pre-hospital institution of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients in cardiac arrest. One […]
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ECLS on Japanese, in Japanese
A review of extracorporeal life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was undertaken, looking specifically at studies published in the Japanese […]
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Extracorporeal CPR
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (E-CPR) using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support during inhospital cardiac arrest has been attempted to improve the […]