Resuscitation
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Resuscitation
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Comparative Study
Feasibility of initiating extracorporeal life support during mechanical chest compression CPR: a porcine pilot study.
Recently, portable extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines have become commercially available. This creates the potential to utilize extracorporeal life support (ECLS) for the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest in the emergency department, and potentially in the out-of-hospital setting. ⋯ Mechanical chest compression may be a suitable therapeutic bridge to the installation of ECMO and does not interfere with ECMO catheter placement.