<u>Background:</u><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Extracorporeal</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-fami...<u>Background:</u><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Extracorporeal</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">membrane oxygenation is a rescue life support technique used in life threatening</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">conditions of refractory respiratory and/or cardiac distress. Indication for extracorporeal life support in children</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">depends on age and varies from pulmonary to cardiac pathologies. In some cases</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> it may be used as a bridge to a</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">therapeutic procedure.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We described here the management of respiratory failure due to hemoptysis in a child with a Fontan circulation</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation which served as a bridge to angio-embolization. Hemoptysis can be a life threatening condition which can lead to hypovolemic shock and impaired alveolar gas</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">exchange. The latter can result in respiratory failure and consequent asphyxia.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">When hemoptysis occurs in a patient with a univentricular</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">heart and a Fontan circulation, management of this</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">clinical situation can be challenging due to the particular physiology of the latter. Total cavopulmonary connection is a palliative surgical repair which constitutes Fontan circulation as a definitiv展开更多
文摘<u>Background:</u><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Extracorporeal</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">membrane oxygenation is a rescue life support technique used in life threatening</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">conditions of refractory respiratory and/or cardiac distress. Indication for extracorporeal life support in children</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">depends on age and varies from pulmonary to cardiac pathologies. In some cases</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> it may be used as a bridge to a</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">therapeutic procedure.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We described here the management of respiratory failure due to hemoptysis in a child with a Fontan circulation</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation which served as a bridge to angio-embolization. Hemoptysis can be a life threatening condition which can lead to hypovolemic shock and impaired alveolar gas</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">exchange. The latter can result in respiratory failure and consequent asphyxia.</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">When hemoptysis occurs in a patient with a univentricular</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">heart and a Fontan circulation, management of this</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">clinical situation can be challenging due to the particular physiology of the latter. Total cavopulmonary connection is a palliative surgical repair which constitutes Fontan circulation as a definitiv
