RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Emergency Bedside Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Rescue of Acute Tracheal Obstruction
JF Respiratory Care
FD American Association for Respiratory Care
SP 646
OP 649
DO 10.4187/respcare.01417
VO 57
IS 4
A1 Willms, David C
A1 Mendez, Ruben
A1 Norman, Vanjah
A1 Chammas, Joseph H
YR 2012
UL http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/57/4/646.abstract
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.