Paris

Posted on February 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

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The Cutdown Approach to ECMO Cannula Insertion with Alice Hutin, Lionel Lamhaut, and Zack Shinar

In this episode, Alice Hutin of the Paris SAMU talks about the modified cutdown approach to cannula insertion. She is an emergency physician who is one of four physicians who cannulates on the pre-hospital ECMO ambulance. She describes the process of their modified cutdown. We are holding off on written descriptions and pictures of the procedure pending Alice’s publication so you will just have to listen!!!! We’ll post the pictures soon! Until then, here is a youtube segment showing a femoral cutdown -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzu7cU3YoXo

Another recent publication by Alice:

Hutin A, Lamhaut L, Lidouren F, Kohlhauer M, Mongardon N, Carli P, Berdeaux A, Ghaleh B, Tissier R. Early Coronary Reperfusion Facilitates Return of Spontaneous Circulation and Improves Cardiovascular Outcomes After Ischemic Cardiac Arrest and Extracorporeal Resuscitation in Pigs. J Am Heart Assoc. 2016 Dec 22;5(12). pii: e004588. doi: ¹. PubMed PMID: 28007740; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5210433

Hutin A, Lamhaut L, Lidouren F, et al. Early Coronary Reperfusion Facilitates Return of Spontaneous Circulation and Improves Cardiovascular Outcomes After Ischemic Cardiac Arrest and Extracorporeal Resuscitation in Pigs. J. 2016;5(12):e004588. doi:10.1161/jaha.116.004588

EDECMO 25.5 – (Part 2) an EDECMO short with Jim Manning – on location with the SAMU pre-hospital ECMO team in France

Posted on November 30, 2015 // 2 Comments

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In followup to our discussion with Jim Manning MD (@JManning_UNC) and Lionel Lamhaut (@LionelLamhaut) MD of the Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente (SAMU) for EDECMO Episode 25, the guys spent the last few days ‘just hanging out in Paris.”

The recent massacre in Paris certainly makes this topic..well…topical.

Manning spent several days with the prehospital ECMO team in France. In this episode Zack interviewed Manning, who was on-location with the SAMU in France…and walks us through the experience of witnessing prehospital ECMO with the SAMU.

In the U.S., we aren’t yet ready for pre-hospital endovascular resuscitation – indeed there are currently several barriers to overcome. But perhaps the Europeans are onto something here:

Femoral cutdown vs. percutaneous access? Discussed. Verdict?

Transporting a patient on ECMO:

You know, the thing is…that once you have a patient on ECMO, everything chills out…

-Jim Manning

Every patient gets:

Dobutamine: 5 ug/kg/min
Norepinephrine 3 mg/hr
pRBC 2 units
FFP 2 units

Flow goals: start 2.5-3 lpm…then slowly increase. Does this help quell reperfusion injury?

This is the exciting. This is fantastic. This is the future if you ask me. We are going to be doing this and its just a matter of time before the rest of us realize that…we are headed in the right direction