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Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Peripheral Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Without Left Ventricular Venting
Published on: January 17, 2025
Individualized real-time clinical decision support to monitor cardiac loading during venoarterial ECMO
Michael Broomé1,2,3, Dirk W Donker4
1School of Technology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Alfred Nobels Allé 10, Huddinge, 141 52, Stockholm, Sweden. michael.broome@karolinska.se.
Abstract:
Veno-arterial extracoporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) is increasingly used for acute and refractory cardiogenic shock. Yet, in clinical practice, monitoring of cardiac loading conditions during VA ECMO can be cumbersome. To this end, we illustrate the validity and clinical applicability of a real-time cardiovascular computer simulation, which allows to integrate hemodynamics, cardiac dimensions and the corresponding degree of VA ECMO support and ventricular loading in individual patients over time.
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