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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe hypoxemia: time for reappraisal?
Fecha
2012Registro en:
JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE PNEUMOLOGIA, BRASILIA DF, v. 38, n. 1, supl., Part 2, pp. 7-12, JAN-FEB, 2012
1806-3713
10.1590/S1806-37132012000100003
Autor
Pontes Azevedo, Luciano Cesar
Park, Marcelo
Vieira Costa, Eduardo Leite
Santos, Edzangela Vasconcelos
Hirota, Adriana
Taniguchi, Leandro Utino
Pinto Schettino, Guilherme de Paula
Passos Amato, Marcelo Brito
Ribeiro Carvalho, Carlos Roberto
Institución
Resumen
in 2009, during the influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, there were many reported cases of pulmonary infection with severe hypoxemia that was refractory to the ventilatory strategies and rescue therapies commonly used to treat patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. Many of those cases were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which renewed international interest in the technique. The Extracorporeal Support Study Group was created in order to practice ECMO and to employ it in the treatment of patients with severe hypoxemia. In this article, we discuss the indications for using ECMO and report the case of a patient with refractory hypoxemia who was successfully treated with ECMO.