PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - David C Willms AU - Ruben Mendez AU - Vanjah Norman AU - Joseph H Chammas TI - Emergency Bedside Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Rescue of Acute Tracheal Obstruction AID - 10.4187/respcare.01417 DP - 2012 Apr 01 TA - Respiratory Care PG - 646--649 VI - 57 IP - 4 4099 - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/57/4/646.short 4100 - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/57/4/646.full AB - A 39-year-old man experienced total obstruction of a distal tracheal plastic stent by a tumor mass, preventing effective ventilation and resulting in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation by emergency bedside venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) permitted time to physically remove the obstructing tumor and reestablish successful ventilation and liberation from ventilatory support. We review several other reported cases of emergency ECMO to resuscitate patients with acute airway obstruction.