Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Feb 2018
Case Reports[Extracorporeal cardiopulmonay resuscitation: case report on an out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest].
Out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest (OHCA) is highly lethal. Although overall survival is increasing, hospital discharge with good neurological prognosis remains low and highly variable. ⋯ He was transferred to the emergency department, where optimal advanced resuscitation was continued, until the connection to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary support, with the aim of reestablishing blood flow, a technique known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR: extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation). The patient was discharged from the hospital 25 days later.