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HEMS Debrief - Retrieval and Pre-Hospital Medicine #3. ECMO...in trauma???
G'day and welcome back to the podcast.
ECMO....in trauma? Today, we are talking about a more general emergency medicine / intensive care medicine topic, that of advanced trauma care. It is fair to raise an eyebrow at 'advanced trauma care' and 'ECMO' in the same sentence - these patients are anatomically disrupted, prone to bleeding and suffering huge multi-system injuries. So placing them onto a heparinised ECMO circuit seems counterintuitive.
But, Chris Bishop and the team from London offer a different perspective.
Chris is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Trauma Sciences…
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