Resuscitation for moribund alpinists stranded at high altitudes: A stepwise approach including ECMO as a last resort strategy

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nepal Mediciti Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Fabrizio Follis et al. Artif Organs. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;46(8):1459-1462.

doi: 10.1111/aor.14320. Epub 2022 May 29.

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
² Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum, Braunschweig, Germany.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nepal Mediciti Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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