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Case Reports
Emergency use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for a foreign body obstructing the airway.
- Timothy Holliday and Andrew Jackson.
- St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW. timothy.holliday@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
- Crit Care Resusc. 2010 Dec 1;12(4):273-5.
AbstractWe report on the successful emergency use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to provide oxygenation and ventilation to a patient with lifethreatening airway obstruction, and then facilitating the removal of a tracheal food bolus by rigid bronchoscopy.
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