767 - A Much More Effective—But Complicated—CPR Could Save Many More Lives
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, has been the gold standard for buying time in a medical emergency. But it's not very effective, especially for the majority of cardiac arrest cases. What is much more effective: employing advanced machinery like ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, that can keep people alive for hours or even days and weeks while physicians address the medical emergency and the body heals. But can emergency medicine shift to get more patients on ECMO faster?
Guest:Dr. Demetris Yannopoulous is a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School where he is the director of resuscitation medicine.
Host:Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:-
ECPR Could Prevent Many More Cardiac Deaths—Scientific American
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