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Can a Tracheostomy be Done While Your Loved One is on ECMO?
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Can a Tracheostomy be Done While Your Loved One is on ECMO?
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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.
Today’s tip is, can a tracheostomy be done for patients on ECMO? So let’s dive right into it. When patients are on ECMO, they are most of the time, almost all the time on heparin. Heparin is a blood thinner that is needed for ECMO because blood is getting extracted, runs through plastic circuits and runs through the ECMO filter to oxygenate the blood and also remove carbon dioxide. It’s basically taking over, ECMO is taking over the function of the lung or of the heart. And because the formation of a blood clot is very likely if blood runs through a plastic tube and through a filter, heparin is needed to coagulate the blood and decrease the likelihood of blood clots to develop. A blood clot quite frankly, when someone is on ECMO could be deadly...
Continue reading at: https://intensivecarehotline.com/blog/quick-tip-for-families-in-icu-can-a-tracheostomy-be-done-while-your-loved-one-is-on-ecmo/
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