Life-threatening massive pulmonary embolism rescued by venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Despite quick implementation of reperfusion therapies, a few patients with high-risk, acute, massive, pulmonary embolism (PE) remain highly hemodynamically unstable. Others have absolute contraindication to re...

Source: Critical Care - March 28, 2017 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Fillipo Corsi, Guillaume Lebreton, Nicolas Br échot, Guillaume Hekimian, Ania Nieszkowska, Jean-Louis Trouillet, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Pascal Leprince, Jean Chastre, Alain Combes and Matthieu Schmidt Source Type: research