A fatal complication during bedside extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: caused by catheter twisting
Open Access
- 1 December 2010
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Vol. 38 (6) , 810
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.03.050
Abstract
A 73-year-old man underwent veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) due to respiratory and cardiac arrest (Fig. 1 ). The following day, changing to veno–veno ECMO was considered because the cardiac function recovered. The right femoral vein puncture was uneventful. However, immediately after the guide wire was removed, the ECMO flow abruptly stopped (Fig. 2 ).Keywords
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