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Mechanical Ventilation Strategies for Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support

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Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly offered as rescue therapy for patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ECMO provides respiratory gas exchange across a membrane lung to supplement mechanical ventilation through a compromised, noncompliant, native lung. As ECMO itself does not treat the underlying lung injury, the focus of therapy is on supporting native lung recovery. Refining lung-protective mechanical ventilation strategies is critical to reducing ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) and to achieving improved outcomes on ECMO.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    Alexis K. Nickols

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Pauline K. Park

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Nickols, A.K., Park, P.K. (2022). Mechanical Ventilation Strategies for Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support. In: Hidalgo, J., Hyzy, R.C., Mohamed Reda Taha, A., Tolba, Y.Y.A. (eds) Personalized Mechanical Ventilation . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14138-6_24

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