About our guest:
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…
- Recall the basic pathophysiology of oxygen delivery
- Identify the different indications for VV and VA ECMO
- Be familiar with the basic sequence of the ECMO circuit
- Recognize ECMO settings and how changing these will impact oxygenation and ventilation
- Be familiar with signs that a patient may be ready to be liberated from ECMO
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Support the show
How to support PedsCrit:
Please complete our Listener Feedback Survey
Please rate and review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
Donations are appreciated @PedsCrit on Venmo , you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show.
Thank you for listening to this episode of PedsCrit. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at pedscritpodcast@gmail.com. Check out http://www.pedscrit.com for detailed show notes. And visit @critpeds on twitter and @pedscrit on instagram for real time show updates.
