EDECMO Podcast

Sep 08 2024 108 ep. 28 mins 26

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The ED ECMO Project is the work of Zack Shinar and Jon Marinaro to bring extracorporeal life support to EDs and ICUs around the world. This site aims to be the ultimate resource for the background, logistics, and evidence for resuscitative ECMO.

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91 – Stay and Play to Shock, Shock, Go!!

Sep 08 2024 21 mins

Should we keep cardiac arrest patients on the scene when we have the ability to put them on ECMO in the hospital? That is the question we tackle this month on EDECMO. Brian Grunau and the great crew from Prague published a study looking at the Hyperinvasive trial data. They make some profound observations about the benefits of ECPR and some data supporting transporting patients ear

90 – ECMO in Trauma with Dr. Powell & Dr. O’Connor

May 02 2024 59 mins

In this episode of the ED ECMO Podcast, hosts Zack Shinar and Jon Marinaro interview Dr. Powell & Dr. O'Connor from Baltimore Shock Trauma, exploring ECMO's critical role in trauma care and its impact on patient outcomes. They discuss patient selection criteria for ECMO, managing hemorrhage and anticoagulation considerations, choosing between veno-arterial and veno-venous ECMO,

89 – What a Medical Student Should Know: Part 1

Apr 04 2024 40 mins

With the growing prevalence of ECPR, it is now more important than ever for all individuals in the medical community to understand what ECMO is, not just those providers who are directly involved with its use. In this new podcast series, Zack Shinar and Jon Marinaro help Nathaniel Dennis-Benford, a first-year medical student, explore what a medical student should know about ECMO

88 – ECMO Billing with John Mehall

Jan 13 2024 53 mins

If you are running or starting a US ECMO program, this episode is a must listen. John Mehall from Innovative ECMO Concepts goes through the financial aspects of ECMO care. He covers everything from hospital charges to physician reimbursement to areas where hospitals commonly fail. We all know that you cannot have a successful ECMO program unless you have sufficient funding to keep

87 – Pearls From Prague and San Diego Resus Consortium with Saul Levine

Nov 02 2023 25 mins

This month Zack gives some pearls from his travels to Prague for Jan Behlolavek's ECPR school, Poland to meet with Marek Dabrowski, and ELSO with the entire crew. Zack also interviews Saul Levine for the first of what may be a recurring conversation about the San Diego Resuscitation Consortium. His efforts along with Kristi Koenig, Shawn Evans, Todd Baumbacher, and many others have

86: UCLA ECPR with Vadim Gudzenko

Sep 06 2023 37 mins

This episode is a follow up to last month's episode with Nichole Bosson. Zack interviews Vadim Gudzenko about the in-patient aspects and critical care doctor perspective on the Los Angeles OHCA ECPR program. A few take homes are that EMS is critical to any OHCA ECPR program. Nurses need support for these intense patients with high mortality. And emergency physicians need

85: Los Angeles County ECPR Program with Nichole Bosson

Aug 01 2023 49 mins

One of the biggest questions in ECPR right now is how do we organize our system to provide ECPR in an effective and streamlined approach? Nichole Bosson, Dave Shavelle and the army of L.A. ECPR enthusiasts have successfully implemented a multi-hospital ECPR receiving center program in Los Angeles. In this episode, Zack talks with Dr. Bosson about how they started, what they learn

84: Talking ELSO with CEO Christine Stead

Jun 19 2023 27 mins

Jon Marinaro takes EDECMO through another great podcast. This time he interviews Christine Stead, the CEO of ELSO. She talks about how ELSO is setting up standards for ECMO programs to try to make ECMO care at all hospitals safer. She talks about how she works also with the device industry. This involves working with the FDA for future innovations and CMS for reimbursement issues

83: Taking ECMO in Pulmonary Embolism to the Next Level

May 29 2023 33 mins

In this episode Jon Marinaro joins the ED ECMO team and interviews his colleague Sundeep Guliani, MD about the use of an ECMO first strategy for Massive Pulmonary Embolism. Jon and Sundeep review the data and processes from their institution and from other institutions in the United States. Could it be that ECLS could move the survival needle on this high mortality disease? Liste

82: Inception Trial with Jon Marinaro

Feb 10 2023 29 mins

In this episode, Jon Marinaro and Zack Shinar go through the hot off the press Inception trial. The trial was touted as a negative ECPR study though many reasons make this trial different then the ARREST trial. They go through several important take home points for practitioners starting or running an ECPR/ECMO program. Inception Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105