Inter-hospital transport on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in various health systems
https://doi.org/10.24884/2072-6716-2021-22-2-64-68
Abstract
The feasibility and the recognition of the possibility to transport patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) aroused in the 1970s. The number of transporting facilities worldwide was less than 20 in the beginning of the second Millennium. In 2009 the H1N1 pandemic and a publication showing survival benefit for adult patients transported to a hospital with ECMO resource increased both awareness and interest for ECMO treatment. The number of transport organizations increased rapidly. As of today, the number of transport organizations increases world-wide, though some centers where ECMO is an established treatment report decreasing numbers of transports. Since the introduction of the more user-friendly equipment (ECMO-2 era) increasing numbers of low-volume ECMO centers perform these complex treatments. This overview is based on the current literature, personal experience in the field, and information from the authors’ network on the organization of ECMO transport systems in different settings of health care around the globe. Registry data since the entry into ECMO-2 shows that the number of ECMO treatments matter. The more treatments performed at a given center the better the patient outcome, and the better these resources are spent for the population served. A Hub-and-S poke model for national or regional organization for respiratory ECMO (rECMO) should be advocated where central high-volume ECMO center (Hub) serves a population of 10 to 15 million. Peripheral units (Spokes) play an important part in emergency cannulations keeping the patient on ECMO support till a mobile ECMO team retrieves the patient. This ECMO team is preferably organized from the Hub and brings competencies for assessment and decision to initiate ECMO treatment bedside at any hospital, for cannulation, and a safe transport to any destination.
About the Authors
V. V. Vasilev
Moscow regional research clinical Institute named after M.F. Vladimirsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir V. Vasilev
I. S. Vasileva
Moscow regional research clinical Institute named after M.F. Vladimirsky
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina S. Vasileva
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Vasilev V.V., Vasileva I.S. Inter-hospital transport on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in various health systems. EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE. 2021;22(2):64-68. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24884/2072-6716-2021-22-2-64-68
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