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- Title
Positionspapier der Österreichischen Kardiologischen Gesellschaft zum Einsatz der extrakorporalen Membranoxygenation (ECMO) bei Erwachsenen kardiologischen Patienten.
- Authors
Pichler, Philipp; Antretter, Herwig; Dünser, Martin; Eschertzhuber, Stephan; Gottardi, Roman; Heinz, Gottfried; Pölzl, Gerhard; Pretsch, Ingrid; Rajek, Angelika; Wasler, Andrä; Zimpfer, Daniel; Geppert, Alexander
- Abstract
The use of ECMO to stabilize critically ill patients with severely depressed cardiac function and hemodynamics increased in the last years due to broader availability, better performance and easier implantation of the devices. The present guidelines of the Austrian Society of Cardiology focus on the use of ECMO in adult non-operated patients with cardiac diseases. Not only indications and contraindications are highlighted, but also the equally important issues of monitoring, complication management, measures during implantation and operation, and weaning of the devices are treated in detail. Thereby the present guidelines aim to optimize the use of ECMO in the individual centers, and aim to help current non-ECMO centers in developing a local ECMO-program or to contact ECMO-centers for discussion of individual patients.
- Subjects
EXTRACORPOREAL membrane oxygenation; CRITICALLY ill; HEMODYNAMICS; THERAPEUTICS; HEART diseases; CARDIAC patients
- Publication
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 2015, Vol 127, Issue 5/6, p169
- ISSN
0043-5325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00508-015-0743-5