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12/16/2021 Anesthesiology Grand Rounds - Mobile ECMO for Lung Rescue

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Review the types of ECMO platforms.
  • Describe the function of the membrane oxygenator
  • Review the indications for ECMO
  • Discuss the impact of mobile ECMO on outcomes

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Gutsche J, Vernick W, Miano TA, for Penn Lung Rescue. One-Year Experience with a Mobile Extracorporeal Life Support Service. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 104(5):1509-1515
  2. Lancet 374: 1351-1363, 2009
  3. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2005;33:319-27
  4. Mazzeffi MA, Rao VK, Dodd-o J, Del Rio JM, et al. Intraoperative Management of dult Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: An Expert Consensus Statement from the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists-Part I, Technical Aspects of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Anesthesia 7 Analgesia. 133(6):1459-1477, December 2021.

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Jacob T Gutsche, MD — Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.