Current status of extracorporeal life support (ECMO) for cardiopulmonary failure.

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Summary

The next decade may bring routine application of ECMO to all advanced Intensive Care Units where patients with profound respiratory and cardiac failure are treated and the major limitations to widespread applications are the need for anticoagulation and bleeding complications.

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Published
2010-07-01
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Medicine, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, Extracorporeal, Life support, Meconium aspiration syndrome

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