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“Awake” extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): pathophysiology, technical considerations, and clinical pioneering

Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO) has been classically employed as a rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure not treatable with conventional mechanical ventilation alone. In recent years, however, the timing of ECMO initiation has been readdressed and ECMO is ofte...

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Autores principales: Langer, Thomas, Santini, Alessandro, Bottino, Nicola, Crotti, Stefania, Batchinsky, Andriy I., Pesenti, Antonio, Gattinoni, Luciano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4928342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27357690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1329-y