Jason A Bartos, R J Frascone, Marc Conterato, Keith Wesley, Charles Lick, Kevin Sipprell, Nik Vuljaj, Aaron Burnett, Bjorn K Peterson, Nicholas Simpson, Kealy Ham, Charles Bruen, Casey Woster, Kari B Haley, Joanna Moore, Brandon Trigger, Lucinda Hodgson, Kim Harkins, Marinos Kosmopoulos, Tom P Aufderheide, Jakub Tolar, Demetris Yannopoulos
Background: We describe implementation, evaluate performance, and report outcomes from the first program serving an entire metropolitan area designed to rapidly deliver extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)-facilitated resuscitation to patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods: This observational cohort study analyzed consecutive patients prospectively enrolled in the Minnesota Mobile Resuscitation Consortium's ECMO-facilitated resuscitation program...
December 2020: EClinicalMedicine