Extracorporeal Life Support (Medical Definition)

What is Extracorporeal Life Support? This video covers the medical definition and provides a quick overview of this topic.
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➡️ What is Extracorporeal Life Support?
It's is a form of therapy that is used for providing cardiac and respiratory support to patients who are unable to perform gas exchange or perfusion on their own. It involves pumping blood out of the body into a machine where oxygenation takes place. Then, the blood can be pumped back into the body for circulation. This is considered to be a very serious type of therapy that should only be used in life-threatening situations where conventional forms of treatment were unsuccessful.

➡️ Types of Extracorporeal Life Support:
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
- Venoarterial (VA)
- Venovenous (VV)
- Extracorporeal CO2 Removal (ECCO2R)

➡️ ECMO
As we mentioned, it's the most common type of extracorporeal life support that involves pumping blood out of the body through a membrane for the gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. It can be used for the management of severe, life-threatening respiratory failure or cardiogenic shock in patients who have not responded well to conventional forms of therapy. Respiratory Therapists are often involved with this type of treatment although state licensure laws may limit their involvement in some states.

➡️ Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
It's a type where venous blood is drained from the patient and ran through a machine for oxygenation. The blood becomes saturated with oxygen and can be returned to the patient’s body via arterial circulation. This type of ECMO is typically used in patients with cardiovascular failure and it should be noted that this type does provide hemodynamic support. It’s most commonly indicated for the treatment of cardiogenic shock.

➡️ Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
It's another type of support where venous blood is drained from the patient and ran through the machine for gas exchange. However, with this type of support, the blood is returned to the patient’s body via venous circulation. This type of ECMO is typically indicated for the treatment of acute respiratory failure that is due to viral or bacterial pneumonia. Unlike Venoarterial ECMO, Venovenous ECMO provides no hemodynamic support.

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⏰TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro`
0:28 - What is Extracorporeal Life Support?
1:04 - Types of Extracorporeal Life Support
1:30 - ECMO
2:09 - Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
2:45 - Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

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