RESOURCES

RESOURCES

EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES + TRIALS

BA, G. P., MD, N. C., PhD, S. W. K., & PhD, H. H. M. (2015). Simple new risk score model for adult cardiac extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: simple cardiac ECMO score. The Journal of Surgical Research, 198(2), 273–279. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2015.04.044

Stub, D., Bernard, S., Pellegrino, V., Smith, K., Walker, T., Sheldrake, J., et al. (2014). Refractory cardiac arrest treated with mechanical CPR, hypothermia, ECMO and early reperfusion (the CHEER trial). Resuscitation, 1–7. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.09.010

Johnson, N. J., Acker, M., Hsu, C. H., Desai, N., Vallabhajosyula, P., Lazar, S., et al. (2014). Extracorporeal life support as rescue strategy for out-of-hospital and emergency department cardiac arrest. Resuscitation, 85(11), 1527–1532. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.08.028

Sakamoto, T., Morimura, N., Nagao, K., Asai, Y., Yokota, H., Nara, S., et al. (2014). Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation versus conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective observational study. Resuscitation, 85(6), 762–768. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.01.031

Fair J, Tonna J, Ockerse P, et al. Emergency physician-performed transesophageal echocardiography for extracorporeal life support vascular cannula placement. Am J Emerg Med 2016;34:1637-9.

Mosier JM, Kelsey M, Raz Y, et al. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for critically ill adults in the emergency department: history, current applications, and future directions. Critical care (London, England) 2015;19:1-8.

The Extracorpoeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) is an established international body that provides guidelines, education and a data registry for patients supported with extracorporeal life support (ECLS)/extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).  We strongly encourage membership in this organization.  

PROTOCOLS & DOCUMENTS

For centers interested in starting or who are in the beginning states of eCPR / ED ECMO Programs, we want to provide our protocol and related documents as a resource.  

University of Utah ED ECMO/eCPR Protocol (.pdf)

University of Utah ED ECMO/eCPR Protocol (.docx)

Patient Flowchart/Process Map (.pdf)

Yannopoulos, D., et al. (2016). "Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium's Advanced Perfusion and Reperfusion Cardiac Life Support Strategy for Out-of-Hospital Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation." J Am Heart Assoc 5(6).