title: Out-of-hospital extracorporeal life support for cardiac arrest-A case report.
abstract: We report the use of out-of-hospital extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in cardiac arrest. We treated a 9-year-old girl with cardiac arrest after warm-water drowning with percutaneous venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) using a new portable Mini-ECMO system. A beating-heart circulation was reestablished on ECMO, but, unfortunately, our patient did not survive. This case shows that Mini-ECMO support can be used to restore an effective circulation and gas exchange in the out-of-hospital setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Aeromedical Service, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. matthias.arlt@klinik.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arlt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Philipp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voelkel
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Graf
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hilker
mesh_terms: D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D004332:Drowning; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D018570:Risk Assessment