
Podcast 157 - Ventilation & Cardiac Arrest w/ Tom Bouthillet
FOAMfrat Podcast
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Ventilation for ECMO
The first few minutes of continuous chest compressions, that's for the bystanders, that's not for EMS. If you don't ventilate at all eventually, according to animal studies and things like that, your cardiac output will start to go down. The ventilation aspect becomes so important because we take that patient and they're on the Lucas and we put them in the helicopter and we're flying them to get cannulated for ECMO. And it really is just squeeze release, squeeze release. It's slow, smooth, simple, but it can easily be done in two seconds.
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