Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in Brazil: a case series.
Lucas Mendes Cunha de Resende BrasilGabriel Nóbrega de ArrudaGabriela Bezerra de Freitas DinizDimas Tadahiro IkeokaGustavo Niankowski SalibaCamila Riberto CamargoDavid José de Barros MachadoFelipe Aires DuarteFelipe Lourenço FernandesPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2023)
Although our patients had a highly severe profile, our results were similar to those of other cohort studies in the literature. This demonstrates that VV-ECMO can be a good tool even in a pandemic situation when it is managed in an experienced center.