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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 184-185Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-6757(00)90015-9
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percutaneous technique; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; cannula
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation plays a very important role in resuscitation when patients are approaching impending death, because it can provide adequate cardiac and pulmonary support immediately. But percutaneous tunnel creation is a critical step for set-up of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation by percutaneous Seldinger technique. A guidewire dilator forceps used in percutaneous tracheostomy was tried to create the femoral subcutaneous tunnel. We found it could make easy the advancement of the percutaneous cannula into the vessels and over-dilatation of the vessels could also be prevented by controlled jaw opening.(Am J Emerg Med 2000;18:184-185. Copyright (C) 2000 by W.B. Saunders Company).
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