Description and intended learning objectives:
The Course is suitable for new centers and for established centers wanting to build a mobile ECMO program
- To understand the challenges of transport and retrieval of patients on ECMO
- To describe how to prepare for and undertake safe transportation on ECMO
- To demonstrate importance of checklists and how to produce one
- To discuss and emphasis critical role of human factors in ECMO retrieval
- To practice, via simulation, safe transport of patients on ECMO
- To demonstrate diagnosis and management of ECMO emergencies during retrieval and transport on ECMO