The fundamentals of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 75-85

  Aghili, N ^a   Kang, S ^b   Kapur, N K ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Hemodynamics; Pulmonary heart disease; Review

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULATION; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD PUMP; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CENTRIFUGAL PUMP; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION DEVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; REVIEW; RIGHT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; SEPSIS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY DISEASE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

EID: 84946840453     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: 18271618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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