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Clinical - Advanced

The World's Longest ECMO Transport

Monday, October 24, 2022

15:30 – 16:30

Location: Room 118

CE: 1.0 credit - CAPCE; Nursing

Main Presenter(s)

Amber L. Payne-Gregory, RN, BSN, MBA, CFRN, CMTE

Director of Medical Operations
AirMed International
Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Co-Presenter(s)

Jeremy Fails, RN,CFRN,TCRN,CEN

Flight Nurse
AirMed International, United States

When the Covid vaccicne was released and the world started traveling again, we thought that the tough times were behind us. ECMO became a common therapy during COVID. But when you think of performing ECMO in a transport vehicle, for 30+ hours, there were not a lot of historical resources to draw from procedurally. Oxygen consumption, team composition, resource availability are all areas that had to be thoroughly assessed so that a patient could be safely moved from the West Coast of the US back to the Middle East while on ECMO.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the complicated logistics and resource availability for international air medical transports.
Describe the process of evaluating the appropriate team composition for a long distance international critical care transport.
Define the appropriate transport modality needed for long distance ECMO transports and transports that require high oxygen consumption.