Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: CME Review.

Michael Stratton, Katherine Edmunds

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PMID: 39083660 DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003178

ABSTRACT: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) is increasingly being used for refractory cardiac arrest for both in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. The term eCPR refers to cannulating a patient to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit to provide perfusion after cardiac arrest refractory to standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation has been shown to offer increased survival benefit among a select group of adult and pediatric patients experiencing refractory cardiac arrests, both in hospital and out of hospital. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be considered when (1) the cardiac arrest is witnessed, (2) the patient receives high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation, (3) the patient is at or in close proximity to an ECMO center, (4) there is a reversible cause for the cardiac arrest where the perfusion from the ECMO circuit serves as a bridge to recovery, and (5) the treating facility has a robust multidisciplinary system in place to facilitate rapidly moving patients from site of arrest to site of cannulation to intensive care unit. To develop an eCPR system of care, a multidisciplinary team consisting of prehospital, emergency medicine, in-hospital, proceduralist, perfusionist, and intensive care medical professionals must be established who support the use of eCPR for refractory cardiac arrest. The future of eCPR is the development of systems of care that use eCPR for a narrow subset of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Heart Arrest

Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Child

Patient Care Team

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