dhippensteel

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1. Awake, alert, oriented & non ventilated...on ECMO??

   dhippensteel replied to umcRN's topic in PICU

   I do ECMO in the adult world and if the patient is cannulated through the neck with a cannula that can both take blood out and push blood back in (like a giant dialysis catheter). We have them out of bed and when we can they are extubated and can ea...

2. Adult ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)

   dhippensteel replied to WalkieTalkie's topic in General Nursing

   We run our ECMO patients as a 1:1 assignment. Occasionally we will take an ECMO patient and another light assignment but we try to not let this happen. We drawn labs frequently initially and then go to q4 or q6 hours. It really depends on the patien...