TY - JOUR T1 - Emergency Bedside Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Rescue of Acute Tracheal Obstruction JF - Respiratory Care SP - 646 LP - 649 DO - 10.4187/respcare.01417 VL - 57 IS - 4 AU - David C Willms AU - Ruben Mendez AU - Vanjah Norman AU - Joseph H Chammas Y1 - 2012/04/01 UR - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/57/4/646.abstract N2 - 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. ER -