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Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during high-risk airway interventions.

John W StokesJames M KatsisWhitney D GannonTodd W RiceRobert J LentzOtis B RickmanSameer K AvasaralaClayne BensonMatthew D BacchettaFabien Maldonado
Published in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2021)
Use of venovenous ECMO to facilitate high-risk airway interventions is safe and feasible. Planned preprocedural ECMO initiation may prevent avoidable respiratory emergencies and extend therapeutic airway interventions to patients otherwise considered too high risk to treat. Guidelines are needed to inform the utilization of ECMO during high-risk bronchoscopy and other airway interventions.
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