Extracorporeal Life Support for Adults

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schmidt, Gregory A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Humana Press, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Respiratory Medicine, 16
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

This book presents a concise, evidence-based review of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) for adult diseases. It describes the use of ECLS with patients who are experiencing severe hypoxemic respiratory failure (ARDS and pneumonia), ventilatory failure (status asthmaticus and COPD), cardiogenic shoc...