What is it about?
ECMO is an advanced life support device for patients who have life-threatening cardiac or pulmonary illnesses. Performing major surgeries on these patients has not been well described before and in this paper, we highlight our experience performing major operations on these very sick patients.
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Why is it important?
ECMO use will continue to increase as rapid advancements in technology and delivery of care improves. It will become more and more common that these patients will need a major operation while on ECMO and we attempt to show that overall complications does not change significantly and therefore, major life-saving operations can be safely performed while patients are on ECMO.
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I believe that this is a very important background research that will hopefully lead to major randomized controlled trials and serious considerations will be given to studying the effect that ECMO has on patients, specifically those who require a life-saving operation while on ECMO.
Biren Juthani
Danbury Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Incidence of general surgical procedures in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, Journal of the Intensive Care Society, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1751143718801705.
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