M Velia Antonini Open access book: COVID-19 prevention & treatment by First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine: three sections, infection prevention and control management diagnosis & management nursing… including an ECMO support for SARS-CoV-2 section: timing for implementing ECLS, configuration & settings, management, monitoring & complications: waiting for more data from ECMOCARD study! Thanks to the … Read more
A global crisis needs a global response and global collaboration. In an unknown disease, ECMOCARD Study Group is coordinating with 26 countries across 4 continents to share data real-time. With these data, we will use Artificial Intelligence to produce machine learning and feed back decision support to clincians who are currently “driving blindfold” in this … Read more
Managing airways in confirmed/suspected COVID-19 patients Patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus may develop severe pneumonia induced by COVID-19, eventually requiring invasive mechanical ventilation to support gas exchange; in these subjects, endotracheal intubation needs to be performed. Given the potential for aereosol/droplets generation, this procedure is one of the highest-risk moments for spreading the disease, and … Read more
Video transcript The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, ELSO, is the global nonprofit organization for ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS). We are working with our partners across the globe on the response to COVID-19 as it relates to the use of ECMO for supporting patients infected with the virus. We are relying … Read more
ECMO in COVID-19 related severe cardiopulmonary failure: visual summary of the recently published ELSO – Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Consensus guideline: unique considerations on when & how to provide ECLS in SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus pandemic, with potential indications/contraindications. Download full document at https://bit.ly/ELSOCOVID19 Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 guidelines to support management of critically ill ICU patients … Read more
ECMO in COVID-19 To date, there is limited worldwide experience with using ECMO in COVID-19 patients. The ELSO – Extracorporeal Life Support Organization continues to collect data through our member centers, and will provide recommendations as additional information becomes available. Moreover, to support the ECMO providers community, we are going to host a series of … Read more
About the ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2019 novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease ECMOCARD study, Professor Robert Bartlett, writes:”… our most important weapon in this crisis is data to predict and plan – on a global scale… a global problem needs global collaboration”. Here some words by Professor John Fraser, President of the Asia Pacific ELSO Chapter … Read more
ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2019 novel Coronavirus Acute Respiratory Disease ECMOCARD study is an multi-centre International study, conducted in all collaborating hospitals/ICU-based research networks in Asia, Australia & New Zealand (APELSO in collaboration with centres within the SPRINT-SARI and ISARIC Networks), and Europe, in COVID-19 patients requiringadmission to to ICU, Mechanical Ventilation &/or ECMO, to … Read more
Would you like to track the COrona VIrus Disease 2019 global cases in realtime? an online dashboard for tracking worldwide spread of the Coronavirus has been built & is regularly updated by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University; the map is freely available and constantly updated link. http://bit.ly/37ILsg0
Report of the World Health Organization (WHO)-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019: – major findings about virus, outbreak, transmission dynamics, disease progression/severity, the China response and knowledge gaps; – recommendations in five major areas to inform the ongoing response in China and globally, for countries with imported cases and/or outbreaks of COVID-19, for uninfected … Read more
Extracorporeal Life Support: The ELSO Red Book, 5th Edition, the leading text book of ECMO combining the expertise of hundreds of international researchers & clinicians, published by the ELSO is also available as eBook!! Do not wait! buy & download your digital copy to have always the Red Book in your pocket, easily accessible as & when needed, also at the bedside!
The ECMO specialist training manual, 4th Edition, covering all aspects of the use of ECLS in all patients from neonates to adults, in patients with cardiac or respiratory dysfunction and with other conditions is now also available as eBook!! Do not wait! buy and download your digital copy to have always this ELSO book in your pocket, easily accessible as needed, also at bedside!
Manual de Entrenamiento para Especialistas en ECMO, 4ª edición en Español! The ECMO Specialist Training Manual, 4th edition now available in Spanish!! both ebook & printed edition El manual de cubre todos los aspectos de las terapias de soporte de ECMO que involucran su aplicación en pacientes, desde recién nacidos hasta adultos. El uso de ECMO en pacientes con disfunción cardíaca o respiratoria y con otras afecciones también está cubierto a profundidad. Esta publicación está escrita pensando en los especialistas en ECMO y como una guía práctica para el uso del ECMO.