Clinical Outcomes of Early Extubation Strategy in Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.
CONCLUSION: VA-ECMO as a bridge therapy seems to be feasible for deployment in patients with a short waiting time for heart transplantation. Deployment of the early extubation ECMO strategy was associated with reductions in delirium and infection in this population.
PMID: 33140587 [PubMed - in process]
Source: J Korean Med Sci - Category: General Medicine Authors: Youn T, Kim D, Park TK, Cho YH, Cho SH, Choi JY, Sung K, Choi JO, Jeon ES, Yang JH Tags: J Korean Med Sci Source Type: research
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