“ECMO for Greater Poland” Program: how to save life and develop organ donation?

The "ECMO for Greater Poland" program takes full advantage of the ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) perfusion therapy opportunities to promote health for 3.5 million inhabitants in the region. The main implementation areas are treatment of:patients with hypothermia;severe reversible respiratory failure (RRF);critical states resulting in heart failure i.e.: cardiac arrest; cardiogenic shock or acute intoxication;and promotion of donor after circulatory death (DCD) strategy in selected organ donor cases, after unsuccessful life saving treatment, to achieve organ recovery.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - March 15, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Mateusz Pu ślecki, Marcin Ligowski, Sebastian Stefaniak, Marek Dąbrowski, Marcin Zieliński, Aleksander Pawlak, Tomasz Kłosiewicz, Maciej Sip, Marek Karczewski, Tomasz Małkiewicz, Łukasz Gąsiorowski, Wojciech Telec, Małgorzata Ładzińska, Konrad B Source Type: research