ASAIO J 2022 May 20. Epub 2022 May 20.
Neurocritical Care Division, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an increasingly utilized intervention for cardiopulmonary failure. Analgosedation during ECMO support is essential to ensure adequate pain and agitation control and ventilator synchrony, optimize ECMO support, facilitate patient assessment, and minimize adverse events. Although the principles of analgosedation are likely similar for all critically ill patients, ECMO circuitry alters medication pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. Read More