Weaning from Veno-Venous ECMO: Lessons from 60 Years of Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation

Ricardo Teijeiro-Paradis¹, Antonio Pesenti^{2

3}, Eddy Fan^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione e Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation University of Milan Milan, Italy.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Ricardo Teijeiro-Paradis et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 15;206(8):928-930.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202206-1104ED.

Ricardo Teijeiro-Paradis¹, Antonio Pesenti^{2

3}, Eddy Fan^{1

4}

¹ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione e Emergenza-Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation University of Milan Milan, Italy.
⁴ Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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End-Tidal to Arterial Pco₂ Ratio as Guide to Weaning from Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
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