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Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Elective Therapy Time to Rethink: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Vinod Kumar Singh, Saurabh Taneja, Sanjeev Mittal, Pranshuta Sabharwal, Brijendra Kumar Rao

Keywords : Acute airway obstruction, Difficult airway, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, Tracheostomy

Citation Information : Singh VK, Taneja S, Mittal S, Sabharwal P, Rao BK. Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Elective Therapy Time to Rethink: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Indian J ECMO 2023; 1 (1):25-28.

DOI: 10.5005/jaypee-journals-11011-0005

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Published Online: 13-03-2023

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2023; The Author(s).


Abstract

Acute airway obstruction poses a therapeutic challenge to treating physicians. There can situations where one is unable to secure the airway along with complete airway obstruction. In such conditions, ECMO can be considered as one of method that can protect from hypoxic damage simultaneously by giving time for adequate surgical access to airway. We present a case of complete airway obstruction where time for adequate surgical access was provided by use of VV-ECMO without any hypoxic damage.


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