American Experience with Extracorporeal Support in Covid-19 Patients:
Early Outcomes from a Single Institution
- Erik Osborn
, - Alan Speir,
- James Lantry,
- Chris King,
- Ramesh Singh,
- Liam Ryan,
- Jikar Simou,
- Eric Sarin,
- Daniel Tang,
- Sarah Hatch,
- Mary Looby,
- Joby Chandy,
- Jeremy Gold,
- Laith Altaweel,
- Kevin Lowery,
- Manoj Reddy,
- Jing Wang,
- Kathleen Petro,
- Heidi Dalton,
- Hussain Dhanani,
- Patrick Moran,
- Svetolik Djurkovic,
- Pouya Tahsilifahadan,
- Thomas Preston,
- Mehul Desai
Abstract
As the world learned about Covid-19, the application of ECMO also
evolved as health systems in the United States had some time to prepare.
We report our initial experience using extracorporeal support for
Covid-19 patients with the resource challenges that attend a worldwide
pandemic.