ED ECMO

ED ECMO


64: Contraindicated??? – Long Live the Aortic Dissection with Garrett Sterling

April 23, 2020

In this episode, Zack Shinar introduces a new physician to the podcast - Garrett Sterling.  Garrett and Zack discuss the sticky topic of ECMO for aortic dissection.  This traverses everything from VA ECMO in ECPR to VVECMO for pulmonary edema.  They go through the literature on the subject and make some conclusions based on this data. The ultimate question - "Is Aortic Dissection a Contraindication for ECMO?"