Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): Current Progress and Clinical Challenges
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2023) | Viewed by 14706
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intensive care medicine; extracorporeal circulation; acute respiratory distress syndrome; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; extracorporeal organ support
Interests: organ support technologies; extracorporeal circulation; standardized in vitro test methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an established rescue therapy for the most severe cases of hypoxemic acute respiratory distress syndrome with an increasing number of applications, but its further development and additional applications are still challenging.
Although technical evolution in the last 50 years has simplified ECMO and has allowed for the identification of new indications, in particular, the role of “artificial lungs” as chronic support remains unsolved. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, ECMO is an important component of differentiated intensive care medicine, but varying high mortality rates have demonstrated the challenge of managing ECMO due to risks and probabilities for the patient.
In this Special Issue, new technical concepts and their transfer to clinical applications and strategies will be investigated, and as actual clinical data and further challenges will be presented.
In the context of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, the topics span from acute organ support to transplants and chronic support and from isolated lung failure to combined heart–lung support and extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We are looking forward receiving your manuscripts on these topics.
Dr. Rüdger Kopp
Prof. Dr. Jutta Arens
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ECMO
- ECLS
- ECLA
- ARDS
- lung transplant
- eCPR
- cardiogenic shock
- pulmonary embolism
- COPD
- artificial lung
- oxygenator
- cannula
- blood pump
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