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  • Safety & Essentials
    • How to use this guideline?
    • ECLS Definitions
    • Circuit Components
    • Modes
    • Configurations of ECMO
    • Patient Safety Rules
    • Equipment Used
  • Clinical Application of ECMO
    • When to think about ECMO?
    • Principles of patient selection
    • Specifics of patient selection
      • VA ECMO
      • VV ECMO
      • ECPR
    • Internal referrals
    • External referrals to the ECMO centre
  • VA ECMO
    • Patient selection
    • ECMO initiation
    • Distal perfusion cannula [DPC]
    • Loss of arterial pulsatility
    • LV distension syndrome
    • Differential hypoxia
    • Management – daily care
    • Weaning from VA ECMO
  • VV ECMO
    • Patient selection
    • COVID-19 Pandemic
    • Bridge to lung transplantation
    • ECMO initiation
    • Hypoxia on VV
    • Dual lumen cannula
    • Respiratory system complications
    • Ventilation
    • Management – daily care
    • Weaning from VV ECMO
  • ECPR
    • Introduction
    • ECPR Activation
    • ECPR Role Cards
    • INCLUSION Criteria
    • ECMO Initiation
    • Specific Immediate Management
    • ECPR Training
  • Daily Care
    • Nursing routine
      • Nursing overview
      • Patient and ECMO monitoring
      • ECMO Console/ Heater/ Blender
      • Cannula position and dressings
      • Pressure area care
      • Routine blood sampling
      • CRRT and plasmapheresis connection
      • Transporting patients
    • Medical ward round
    • Level of ECMO support
    • Access insufficiency
    • Anticoagulation & bleeding
    • Haemolysis
    • Organ support in ECMO
      • Sedation
      • Extubation and tracheostomy
      • Antimicrobials
      • Mobilisation & Physiotherapy
      • Nutrition
      • Use of CRRT
      • Temperature management
    • CT Imaging
    • Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
    • End of life care
  • Emergency
    • Alarms
    • Cardiac Arrest
    • Access Insufficiency
    • Air Embolism
    • Cardiac Tamponade
    • Pump Failure
    • Oxygenator Failure
    • Circuit Related Bleeding
    • VAD Emergencies
  • Procedures
    • Transport & Retrieval
    • ECMO initiation
    • Percutaneous ECMO cannulation
    • Distal perfusion cannula
    • Dual lumen cannula
    • Circuit priming
    • ECMO circuit change
    • LV vent
    • Change of configuration
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