RESUMEN

A retrieval service was established in New South Wales to provide mobile extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support to patients with severe, acute cardiac or respiratory failure. This service has also retrieved four adult patients from Nouméa, New Caledonia to Sydney on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support, which are the first international retrievals of this type from Australia. We discuss our experience with these patients, three of whom survived to hospital discharge. However, one patient referred from New Caledonia died before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation could be established.

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Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/métodos , Transporte de Pacientes/métodos , Adolescente , Adulto , Aeronaves , Anticoagulantes/administración & dosificación , Anticoagulantes/uso terapéutico , Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Cardíacos , Resultado Fatal , Femenino , Heparina/administración & dosificación , Heparina/uso terapéutico , Humanos , Masculino , Nueva Caledonia , Nueva Gales del Sur , Grupo de Atención al Paciente , Insuficiencia Respiratoria , Choque Cardiogénico/complicaciones , Choque Cardiogénico/terapia , Resultado del Tratamiento , Adulto Joven