The role of echocardiography in the management of patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-141

  Platts, David Gerard ^a,b   Sedgwick, John Francis ^a   Burstow, Darryl John ^a,b   Mullany, Daniel Vincent ^a,b   Fraser, John Francis ^a,b  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ASTHMATIC STATE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD PUMP; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CANNULA; CANNULATION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG INTOXICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INJURY; HEART SURGERY; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS PROTEINOSIS; LUNG BURN; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MYOCARDITIS; OXYGENATOR; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84856091949     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.11.009     Document Type: Review

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