Critical care (London, England) 2021 Aug 31

To prone or not to prone ARDS patients on ECMO.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2021. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2021 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from https://link.springer.com/bookseries/8901 .

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Do you continue to prone patients with severe ARDS after initiation of VV-ECMO?

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Pulmonology · UC San Diego Health

Not routinely - although we have occasionally proned VV ECMO patients at our center. Reasons for not proning include: Cannula dislodgement/displacement risk (although Roca et al, PMID 34461971 reviews the literature on proning with VV ECMO and the risk of major line complications is small). Generall...