TY - JOUR AU - Mendes, Pedro Vitale AU - de Albuquerque Gallo, Cesar AU - Besen, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro AU - Hirota, Adriana Sayuri AU - de Oliveira Nardi, Raquel AU - dos Santos, Edzangela Vasconcelos AU - Li, Ho Yeh AU - Joelsons, Daniel AU - Costa, Eduardo Leite Vieira AU - Foronda, Flavia Krepel AU - Azevedo, Luciano Cesar Pontes AU - Park, Marcelo PY - 2017 DA - 2017/02/07 TI - Transportation of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a tertiary medical center experience and systematic review of the literature JO - Annals of Intensive Care SP - 14 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Utilization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has increased worldwide, but its use remains restricted to severely ill patients, and few referral centers are properly structured to offer this support. Inter-hospital transfer of patients on ECMO support can be life-threatening. In this study, we report a single-center experience and a systematic review of the available published data on complications and mortality associated with ECMO transportation. SN - 2110-5820 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-016-0232-7 DO - 10.1186/s13613-016-0232-7 ID - Mendes2017 ER -