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ECMO and Mechanical Support

Two-Hour Concurrent Session

Extracorporeal Life Support: What's Here, What You Need to Know, and What's Coming

Thursday, April 21, 2022

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM US CST

CE: 2.0

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

Heidi Dalton, MD, FELSO

Director, ECLS Research and Program Development
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Scottsdale, Arizona

Consultant/Advisor - Entergrion Inc
Peta Alexander, MBBS, FRACP

Staff Physician
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

This session will combine the most popular learning methods for extracorporeal support, combining didactic information on the most up-to-date research and clinical outcomes, case-based presentations that will be used to incorporate the didactic portion, and audience participation by Q&A with the expert faculty panel. Topics covered are:

1. New technology: what's here, why it's important, what's coming
2. Expanding populations, criteria, and outcomes (extracorporeal CPR, COVID-19, transplant, cardiac)
3. What's new in anticoagulation? Maybe the answer is to do nothing!
4. How we handle the lung during venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the heart during venoarterial ECMO, sedation, when and how to unload the left ventricle, whether I need to change from venovenous to another mode for hypoxia (and why)

This sessions will focus on adult and pediatric patients but not much on neonatal ECMO. Didactic talks will be incorporated into case-based presentations. Time for Q&A with the speakers will be a major focus.

Learning Objectives:

Explore the most up-to-date outcomes, patient populations, and new equipment available for venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Apply new techniques to difficult patient cases
Discuss how a regional extracorporeal CPR program can save lives and describe the steps to follow in rolling out such a program to other communities
Assess difficult ECMO cases from different clinician perspectives
Identify the optimal anticoagulation regimen for support of ECMO patients

Presentations:

VV ECMO in the Current and Future Era
Concurrent Session Faculty: Craig S. Jabaley, MD, FCCM – Emory University Hospital
Ethics in ECMO: Difficult Cases and Consideration
Concurrent Session Faculty: Cara Agerstrand – NYP
Extracorporeal Life Support: What’s Here, What You Need to Know, and What’s Coming
Concurrent Session Faculty: James H. Lantry III, III, MD – University of Maryland Medical Center
Mobilizing the ECMO Patient
Concurrent Session Faculty: Ali Tabatabai, MD, – University of Maryland
Too Many Patients, Not Enough Help?
Concurrent Session Faculty: Heidi J. Dalton, MD, FELSO – Inova Fairfax Hospital