An intensivist on a learning frenzy. Caring for the critically ill using evidence-based medicine.
There are few options when it comes to right ventricular support for patients who are in right heart failure from a multitude of etiologies. At the time of this writing, we are limited to two temporary percutaneous right ventricular assist devices (RVAD) to assist our patients with this problem: the Impella RP and the Protek …
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Let's start off with the basics. ECMO is the medical abbreviation for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation. This means that the system takes blood out of your body run its through a circuit, and puts oxygen into it. It can obviously do other things which I will cover below. There are two types of ECMO, VA …
