Karen Fauman, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and dual boarded pediatric intensivist and palliative care physician at Comer Children’s. She received her medical degree, pediatric and pediatric critical care training at the University of Michigan. Now at the University of Chicago she serves as the critical care medicine fellowship program director and the ECMO medical director. She is very active in ECMO-related research with an added focus on the psychosocial aspects of critical care in children.

The Cribsiders:

The Cribsiders is a pediatric medicine podcast composed of a national network of students, residents and clinician educators from across the country and multiple institutions. On the show we “curbside” the experts to deconstruct various topics in the world of medicine to provide listeners with clinical pearls, practice-changing knowledge and a weight-based dosing of fun.

Learning Objectives:

After listening to this episode listeners will…  

1. Recall the basic pathophysiology of oxygen delivery
2. Identify the different indications for VV and VA ECMO
3. Be familiar with the basic sequence of the ECMO circuit
4. Recognize ECMO settings and how changing these will impact oxygenation and ventilation  
5. Be familiar with signs that a patient may be ready to be liberated from ECMO

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