ECMO Retrieval Program Foundation / edited by Anton Sabashnikov, Thorsten Wahlers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabashnikov, Anton, editor.

Wahlers, Thorsten, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical care medicine.

Cardiology.

Respiratory organs--Diseases.

Respiratory organs.

Anesthesiology.

Heart--Surgery.

Heart.

Intensive Care Medicine.

Pneumology.

Cardiac Surgery.

Local Subjects:

Intensive Care Medicine.

Cardiology.

Pneumology.

Anesthesiology.

Cardiac Surgery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This book should represent a guideline for launching an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program. It describes in detail particularities and special features of planning, setting up, developing, structuring and maintaining of ECMO support program for instable patients with the need of transportation from peripheral hospitals to an experienced ECMO centre for further treatment. Authors have condensed both the current evidence and Guidelines on ECMO and eCPR support and have highlighted in detail the issue of planning, setting up, developing, structuring and maintaining this program with the view to helping other centres launching this life-saving service taking into account their experience in this important field of medicine. In this context, the main benefit of this book is the outstanding and particular aim to educate the reader in developing and maintaining a large-spectrum ECMO program. The volume, richly illustrated and written by KOLs using an expository writing style to promote the readability will appeal to intensivists, anesthesiologists and cardiologists as well as cardiac- and thoracic-surgeons and pneumologists.

Contents:

Part 1. Scientific, technical and clinical background of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy

1. History of Extracorporeal Life Support: From cardio-pulmonary bypass towards ECMO

2. Variety and classification of ECMO systems and cannulation strategies

3. Is it time to move on? Discrepancies between official Guidelines and real life clinical scenarios

4. Left Ventricular (LV) Decompressing and Venting Strategies – The Game Changers in ECMO Support

5. ECMOlogy as the new medical discipline – the way towards interdisciplinary approach of ECMO therapy

Part 2. From zero to hero: matters and challenges of launching an ECMO retrieval program

6. Teamwork makes the dream work: creating interdisciplinary synergies among cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonology and anaesthesiology

7. Financial aspects and negotiations with manufacturers

8. Add-on Modules, Quality Assessment Issues and Specific Arrangements inIntensive Care Units (ICU) Sector: Demand of Infrastructure and Staff

9. Brainstorming: personnel education and planning stage of the service

10. Assign the Parts: Aspects of ECMO Team Building

11. Check Lists, Retrieval Protocols and Internal Guidelines

12. As little as possible and as much as necessary: supplementary equipment and “ECMO suitcase” for retrieval service

13. Do you really need an ECMO coordinator? Strategies to optimize communication

14. Round-the-clock operation: trips and tricks to help achieve flexibility and realizability

Part 3. Specifics of the propaganda machine: how to get referrals and what is the best way to draw attention to the program

15. Professional web presence as an indispensible module of the current information dissemination

16. Are printed media still holding their own against the electronic competition?

17. Show your face: personal introduction and direct communication with referringcolleagues

18. Meet the experts: scientific exchange and academic performance through symposiums and peer reviewed publications

19. Make you global debut: benefits of joining Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO)

Part 4. From start to finish: chronological order and safety aspects of ECMO retrievals from local hospitals

20. Time is life: optimization of packing up the equipment and organizing outward journey

21. On the road: fast and safe transport of the team and equipment

22. On-the-spot check: clinical assessment and decision making

23. Pearls and pitfalls in ECMO cannulation: practical tips to minimize complications

24. Save the leg: game plans for ensuring distal limb perfusion

25. Initial management of transported patients after arrival on ICU

26. Ins and outs of extracorporeal cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) service

Part 5. Pushing the boundaries: managing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

27. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – Achilles’ heel in cardiovascular medicine

28. In- or out-of-hospital ECMO implantation? Impact of infrastructure, logistic conditions and legal circumstances

Part 6. Miscellaneous

29. Ethical considerations

30. From the view of a patient and next of kin

31. Future perspectives. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sabashnikov, Anton ECMO Retrieval Program Foundation

ISBN:

3-031-20260-0