Creating a Controlled Arterio-Venous Shunt by Reversing the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Blood Flow: A Strategy for Weaning Patients Off Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Conclusions: Pump controlled retrograde flow trial off is an easy to use and easily reversible technique to assess patient readiness for separation from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Given pump controlled retrograde flow trial off can easily be stopped and—in our experience—is not associated with complications, it lowers the threshold to attempt coming off extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and facilitates accurate assessment of whether a patient will need further ongoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support.
Source: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Category: Pediatrics Tags: Extracorporeal Support Source Type: research