• Perfusion · Mar 2013

    Case Reports

    Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a patient with combined pulmonary and systemic embolisation.

    • C-H Ko, P Forrest, R D'Souza, and R Qasabian.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. chaobabish1212@yahoo.com.au
    • Perfusion. 2013 Mar 1; 28 (2): 138-40.

    AbstractWe present a highly unusual case of massive pulmonary embolism with secondary paradoxical systemic embolisation that was successfully resuscitated with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). This enabled subsequent successful bridging to pulmonary embolectomy.

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