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Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2016 Mycobacterium chimaera, a non-tuberculous mycobacterium, was recently identified as causative agent of deep-seated infections in patients who had previously undergone open-chest cardiac surgery. Outbreak investigations suggested an aerosol-borne pathogen
F. Trudzinski +11 more
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CESAR: conventional ventilatory support vs extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failure. [PDF]
, 2006 BACKGROUND: An estimated 350 adults develop severe, but potentially reversible respiratory failure in the UK annually. Current management uses intermittent positive pressure ventilation, but barotrauma, volutrauma and oxygen toxicity can prevent lung ...
Clemens, Felicity +11 more
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)—A Lifesaving Technology. Review and Single-center
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2019 Objective: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is used to bypass the cardiopulmonary system in a severe heart or/and lung failure, mainly in intractable conditions where all other therapy options fail or are unfeasible.
Maged Makhoul +5 more
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Management considerations of massive hemoptysis while on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO) is a life-saving procedure in patients with both respiratory and cardiac failure. Bleeding complications are common since patients must be maintained on anticoagulation.
Cavarocchi, Nicholas C. +5 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a support modality used within the pediatric cardiac ICU population as a bridge to recovery or decision in the setting of acute myocardial decompensation, support for combined cardiopulmonary failure or in ...
Matthew K. Bacon +3 more
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Application of ECMO in perioperative airway management [PDF]
Jichu yixue yu linchuangTraditional airway management techniques may fail to provide adequate oxygenation and ventilation for high-risk patients in complex cases. As an extracorporeal life support (ECLS) technology, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) offers continuous ...
ZHANG Yi, SHEN Le
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Imaging adults on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Insights into Imaging, 2014 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly being used in adults following failure to wean from cardiopulmonary bypass, after cardiac surgery or in cases of severe respiratory failure.
Steven Lee, A. Chaturvedi
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Use of Polymyxin B Hemoperfusion in a Patient with Septic Shock and Septic Cardiomyopathy Who Was Placed on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygen Support [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 Although shock in sepsis is usually managed successfully by conventional medical treatment, a subset of cases do not respond and may require salvage therapies such as veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) support as well as an ...
Sun Hye Shin +5 more
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Fatal heart block from intentional yew tree (Taxus baccata) ingestion: a case report [PDF]
, 2019 © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org ...
Chan, Mark +3 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2019 Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary hemoglobinopathy resulting in sickling hemoglobin. Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is a serious complication of SCD and an important cause of morbidity and mortality.
Thibaut Belveyre +2 more
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