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Dagmawi Demessie1, Yara Menassa2, Aabha Divya2
1School of Public Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Abstract:
Intractable bleeding during cardiac surgery is a rare but life-threatening complication. We describe a novel management approach in which the patient was supported with venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation until hemostasis could be achieved. This approach serves as an unloading technique for the heart while allowing compression of bleeding sites and safe transfusion without hemodynamic instability or myocardial dysfunction.
