• J Bras Pneumol · Jan 2012

    Case Reports

    Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe hypoxemia: time for reappraisal?

    • Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Marcelo Park, Eduardo Leite Vieira Costa, Edzângela Vasconcelos Santos, Adriana Hirota, Leandro Utino Taniguchi, Guilherme de Paula Pinto Schettino, Marcelo Brito Passos Amato, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho, and Extracorporeal Support Study Group.
    • Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo (SP) Brasil.
    • J Bras Pneumol. 2012 Jan 1;38(1):7-12.

    AbstractIn 2009, during the influenza A (H1N1) epidemic, there were many reported cases of pulmonary infection with severe hypoxemia that was refractory to the ventilatory strategies and rescue therapies commonly used to treat patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. Many of those cases were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which renewed international interest in the technique. The Extracorporeal Support Study Group was created in order to practice ECMO and to employ it in the treatment of patients with severe hypoxemia. In this article, we discuss the indications for using ECMO and report the case of a patient with refractory hypoxemia who was successfully treated with ECMO.

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