dhippensteel

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

   dhippensteel replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   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...

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...