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Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation has come of age after publication of the CESAR trial and the experience of its use during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, showing its increasing benefit for the treatment of hypoxaemic respiratory failure and combined cardiovascular and respiratory failure, including post-cardiac arrest.
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