The Longest ECMO Transport
January 4, 2022
What most would consider impossible was achievable by the team at AMI.
In August 2021, AirMed International set out to complete a transport that most would consider impossible. They needed to move a COVID-19 patient on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) from the West Coast of the United States almost 8,000 miles to the United Arab Emirates – in the middle of a global pandemic. The trip required 14 days of planning and a whole lot of oxygen.
An article published in JEMS tells the story and revisits the challenges and lessons learned from what could easily be considered the world’s longest ECMO transport.
An article published in JEMS tells the story and revisits the challenges and lessons learned from what could easily be considered the world’s longest ECMO transport.
