Hand-held minimised extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a new bridge to recovery in patients with out-of-centre cardiogenic shock☆☆☆

Abstract

The use of hand-held Mini-ECMO systems enables for the first time the rapid onset of extracorporeal life support independent from the patient's current location. However, success is extremely time- and team dependent. Highly skilled interdisciplinary patient management is essential to let minimised-ECMO become a new and highly effective bridge to recovery in out-of-centre cardiogenic shock patients.