@article{ref1, title="Resuscitation of a near-drowning patient by the use of a portable extracorporeal circulation device", journal="Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie: AINS", year="1997", author="Kumle, B. and Döring, B. and Mertes, H. and Posival, H.", volume="32", number="12", pages="754-756", abstract="We report on a 21-year old patient who nearly drowned in cold water under inexplicable circumstances. About 1/2 hour later he was found with cardiac arrest. Immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation remained unsuccessfully but was continued. After transportation to the nearest hospital a core temperature of 26.1 degrees C was recorded. A team of our hospital arrived 2 1/2 hours after start of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. After introducing a femo-femoral bypass the patient was rapidly rewarmed and oxygenated using a portable extracorporeal circulation and membrane oxygenation. Defibrillation succeeded at a core temperature of 34.4 degrees C. A severe ARDS developed the same day which was successfully treated by membrane oxygenation. 41 days later the patient left the hospital fully recovered.

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", language="de", issn="0939-2661", doi="10.1055/s-2007-995151", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2007-995151" }