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Case Reports
Successful use of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in accidental hypothermic cardiac arrest.
- Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, Senthil K Balasubramanian, Espeed Khoshbin, Leonidas Hadjinikolaou, Andrzej W Sosnowski, and Richard K Firmin.
- Department of ECMO and Cardiac Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, United Kingdom.
- ASAIO J. 2005 Jul 1;51(4):474-6.
AbstractCardiopulmonary bypass is usually used for rewarming and for providing cardiac support in patients with severe hypothermia and cardiovascular instability. We report the first case of accidental severe hypothermia associated with prolonged cardiac arrest that was successfully managed by venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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