ECMO Retrieval Program Foundation

This book should represent a guideline for launching an extracorporeal  membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program. It describes in detail  particularities and special features of planning, setting up,  developing, structuring and maintaining of ECMO support program for  instable patients with the need of transportation from peripheral  hospitals to an experienced ECMO centre for further treatment.

Authors  have condensed both the current evidence and Guidelines on ECMO and  eCPR support and have highlighted in detail the issue of planning,  setting up, developing, structuring and maintaining this program with  the view to helping other centres launching this life-saving service  taking into account their experience in this important field of  medicine. In this context, the main benefit of this book is the  outstanding and particular aim to educate the reader in developing and  maintaining a large-spectrum ECMO program.

The volume, richly  illustrated and written by KOLs using an expository writing style to  promote the readability will appeal to intensivists, anesthesiologists  and cardiologists as well as cardiac- and thoracic-surgeons and  pneumologists