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Episode 61: ECPR with Scott Weingart

Critical Care Scenarios

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ECMO for a PEA Arrest

For a PEA arrest, which he says tends to have a pretty narrow window for a successful run of eCPR, Scott would start putting in those arterial and venous catheters right away. For a patient with shockable rhythms like V-fibber V-TAC, again, start right away getting that venous and arterial access. And then if you get to about three shocks and they still haven't had Rosk, that's when he would start proceeding to ECMO.

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