NEW PAPER: Extracorporeal Life Support in the Emergency Department: A...
Pulmonary Critical Care guru Justyna Swol from Nuremberg, Germany invited Scott, Zack and me to co-author this paper along with several other ECLS experts. Just published in the Journal...
View Article50a Inter-facility Transport of ECMO patients Part 1 of 2
This month we are looking at how to transport patients from one facility to another on ECMO. This is a difficult task, full of potential catastrophes. Zack interviews Leon Eydelman, an ER/Critical...
View Article52: Brain Freeze- Selective Retrograde Cerebral Perfusion for Intra-Arrest...
1,23456 We've all heard of therapeutic hypothermia. Some of us have heard of deep hypothermia for traumatic arrest. But what about deep regional hypothermia of brain for cardiac arrest! Zack...
View Article53: Distal Perfusion Catheter with Joe Dubose
Episode 53 is all about the distal perfusion catheter12. We are inserting a 15-19 Fr catheter into the femoral artery. This limits the flow of blood to the affected extremity. Many institutions have...
View ArticleOur Recent ED ECMO article in Journal of Emergency Medicine
Check out this link to the full article from our recent Emergency Physician initiated ECMO cohort...
View Article56: Pressors, Fluid, or Flow – Optimizing ECMO Physiology
A post arrest patient just got initiated on ECMO. Do you give fluids, add pressors, or increase flow? Marc Dickstein, an anesthesiologist from Columbia University and an expert in the physiology of...
View Article71: Should We Prioritize VV-ECMO over ECPR?
In this episode, we dive into the abyss of resource allocation. Much of the world is saying that the limited number of ECMO circuits should be used for COVID induced lung injury. This means that ECPR...
View ArticleELSO ECPR Textbook
Crew, We are proud to announce the world’s first ECPR textbook. We partnered with ELSO and 25 of the world’s leaders in ECPR and resuscitative ECMO to create an awesome resource for both in depth...
View ArticleReanimate 9 Live Stream
Crew, Reanimate 9 is next week (Nov 8th and 9th). We have a HUGE announcement. We are live-streaming Jason Bartos’ lecture about the Minneapolis ECPR experience. Day is November 9th. Time is 8:45 –...
View Article92 – Mark Dennis – Pearls from Sydney
EDECMO episode 92 features Dr. Mark Dennis, a cardiologist from Sydney, who has published extensively in the field of ECPR. Zack and Mark talk about so many subjects including pre-hospital...
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