Left ventricular unloading to promote ventricular recovery &/or prevent complications in patients on VA #ECMO ? EuroELSO survey:
🔍 53% routinely use mechanical LV unloading
⚠️ 65% those that do not routinely unload cited as reason risk of complications
🫀most common

Such a pity essentially no 'major' journals publish case reports any more. Everyone talks about the importance of narrative in learning, and the papers we remember from 100 years ago tend to be the case reports. Key case reports can be massively impactful. But no.

Distal limb perfusion in adults on peripheral VA #ECMO with femoral artery cannulation:
🩸 historical evolution: from early days of distal limb perfusion to advent & evolution of/evidence for DPC
importance of prophylactic distal limb perfusion
percutaneous vs surgical

🫀Beta-blockade in VV #ECMO ?? Physiological & mathematical demonstration of ⬇️ DO2 (irrespective of effect on SaO2) in pts completely dependent on #ECLS through ⬇️ CO if Hb, EBF & VO2 constant. #FOAMcc  
🔓 rdcu.be/dF6ed 

Refers to this manuscript emphasizing potential

Physiology of VA #ECMO :
🩸basic hemodynamic alterations
🫀cardiac mechanical loading conditions
🫀assessing & managing cardiac function
🫁 monitoring/managing cardio-pulmonary function & condition
🫁 pulmonary complications
🫀right & left ventriculo-arterial

Extracorporeal perfusion to support organ donation from DCD donors: dedicated session at #EuroELSO2024 moderators Caroline Patterson & I... so many aspects to be investigated to furtherly expand DCD OD & improve the feasibility & the outcomes of both TA/A-NRP, overcoming their

How to manage emergencies in #LVAD recipients in #transplant centres?? British societies guideline #FOAMcc on Intensive Care Medicine
🇬🇧UK emergency algorithm development
⏱️initial response & initial/secondary responder
⚙️ #troubleshooting
🩸adequacy of circulation
🔓bit.ly/4ae1xus

The #ECLS team & the organ procurement team of the AUSL della Romagna at #EuroELSO2024 with 2 posters!
🎨 #extracorporeal support in #DCD donors: design & implementation of a pilot education & training course on normothermic regional perfusion #NRP
🎨 managing accidental decannulation

#EuroELSO2024 dinner past evening in Krakow 🇵🇱...
On stage:
🎤 Past President N Barrett handing over to M Belliato, President Elect (welcome!)
🎤 ELSO President Graeme MacLaren
🎤 Honorary Secretary R Lorusso
🎤 Congress Chair K. Szułdrzyński
🏆 winners of 1st Cannulation Cup

Un(expected) challenges of #NRP #EISOR in #DCD organ donors! Full room for the first EuroELSO educational corner on normothermic regional perfusion at #EuroELSO2024 congress here in Krakow! This interactive learning opportunity with #simulation training involved a

ECSiTeD is at #EuroElso2024 for our persistent hypoxemia on VV ECMO workshop. Please join us.
EuroELSO M Velia Antonini Justyna Swol MD • ECMOdaily

Konstanty Szułdrzyńsky >> Prone positioning during ECMO - PROs

Join #EduCorners during #EuroELSO2024 no registration required, fee is included in the registration fee - come and join us -

Join #EduCorners during #EuroELSO2024 no registration required, fee is included in the registration fee - come and join us - the way there is like a labyrinth but follow the signs - elevator to the 3rd floor and the next elevator at the end to the 2nd floor

Mild hypocapnia & outcomes in pts w acute BI on MV
🧩 only after failure of initial interventions, ICP guided: NOT routine pre-hosp practice
🧩 ETCO2/PaCO2 often not directly comparable
🔓rdcu.be/dFkyl

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⚖️ Race-conscious research using ELSO Registry data, narrative review providing comprehensive understanding of race variable limitations, suggesting reasoned retrospective analytic approaches, offering ways to interpret results that advance health equity, recommending