PMID- 35284694
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220315
IS  - 2452-2473 (Print)
IS  - 2452-2473 (Electronic)
IS  - 2452-2473 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Jan-Mar
TI  - Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation experiences during COVID-19 pandemic, third 
      wave with younger patients: A retrospective observational study.
PG  - 36-43
LID - 10.4103/2452-2473.336106 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: In this article, the results of severe coronavirus disease 2019 
      (COVID-19) cases followed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support 
      in a 3-month period in the third wave when there were an increased number of 
      cases of young patients in our intensive care unit (ICU) were presented. METHODS: 
      The study was carried out with all COVID-19 patients who were given ECMO support 
      in our tertiary referral hospital ICU after obtaining the consent of the Ministry 
      of Health Scientific Research Platform and after the approval of the local ethics 
      committee. Patient data were obtained retrospectively from intensive care bedside 
      follow-up charts and computer records. The demographic and clinical 
      characteristics of the patients were presented in average, median, and 
      percentages. The data of the patients were evaluated and compared with the 
      current literature. RESULTS: ECMO treatment was applied in seven patients who 
      were followed up with severe COVID-19 pneumonia in the last 3 months. Venovenous 
      extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) was applied to all patients. Five 
      (71.5%) of seven patients were weaned from ECMO. Four (57.2%) of seven patients 
      were discharged from the ICU and hospital in good health. While two of the 
      patients had a cesarean section (C/S) before ECMO, one patient underwent C/S 
      under ECMO. All three newborns were delivered via C/S and all were premature (C/S 
      dates were 35 weeks, 32 weeks, and 27 weeks), and all were discharged from the 
      hospital in good health. CONCLUSION: Our experience shows that ECMO in COVID-19 
      patients is a lifesaving treatment option that can be successfully applied in 
      severe acute respiratory distress syndrome cases who do not respond to 
      conventional treatments.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2022 Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine.
FAU - Kucuk, Ahmet Oguzhan
AU  - Kucuk AO
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6993-0519
AD  - Department of Chest Diseases, Division of Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of 
      Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
FAU - Kucuk, Mehtap Pehlivanlar
AU  - Kucuk MP
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2247-4074
AD  - Department of Chest Diseases, Division of Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of 
      Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
FAU - Aycicek, Olcay
AU  - Aycicek O
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0697-5680
AD  - Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical 
      University, Trabzon, Turkey.
FAU - Altun, Gokalp
AU  - Altun G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1116-6594
AD  - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical 
      University, Trabzon, Turkey.
FAU - Ozdemir, Ahmet Coskun
AU  - Ozdemir AC
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4356-0158
AD  - Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical 
      University, Trabzon, Turkey.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220120
PL  - India
TA  - Turk J Emerg Med
JT  - Turkish journal of emergency medicine
JID - 101681782
PMC - PMC8862797
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Coronavirus disease 2019
OT  - SARS-CoV-2
OT  - extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
OT  - mortality
OT  - pregnancy
COIS- Conflicts of interest None Declared.
EDAT- 2022/03/15 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/15 06:01
PMCR- 2022/01/20
CRDT- 2022/03/14 06:00
PHST- 2021/09/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/11/04 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/11/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/03/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/03/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/15 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - TJEM-22-36 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/2452-2473.336106 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Turk J Emerg Med. 2022 Jan 20;22(1):36-43. doi: 10.4103/2452-2473.336106. 
      eCollection 2022 Jan-Mar.