title: Echocardiography for adult patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
abstract: Venoarterial (VA) and venovenous (VV) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support is increasingly being used in recent years in the adult population. Owing to the underlying disease precipitating severe respiratory or cardiac failure, echocardiography plays an important role in the management of these patients. Nevertheless, there are currently no guidelines on the use of echocardiography in the setting of ECMO support. This review describes the current state of application of echocardiography for patients supported with both VA and VV ECMO.
authors.affiliation: Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada. ghislaine.doufle@uhn.ca.|Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada. ghislaine.doufle@uhn.ca.
authors.forename: Ghislaine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Douflé
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia & ICU, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB23 3RE, UK.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roscoe
authors.affiliation: Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada.|Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada.
authors.forename: Filio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Billia
authors.affiliation: Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada.|Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5G 2N2, Canada.
authors.forename: Eddy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic