A systematic review of adult animal models investigating ECMO use for ARDS: where to from here.

Publication/Presentation Date

7-18-2025

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Controlled clinical trials investigating ongoing questions about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), including what the optimal mechanical ventilation (MV) tidal volume (TV) strategies are and whether ECMO potentiates injurious host responses, are difficult. We therefore conducted a systematic literature search and review to characterize studies investigating ECMO in adult animal lung injury models and to determine whether they inform these questions.

METHODS: A systematic literature search with relevant search terms was conducted of four data bases through 2/2/24.

RESULTS: Forty-five studies met inclusion criteria, and most parameters examined were represented similarly in studies with (n = 24) or without (n = 21) severe ARDS PaO

Volume

13

Issue

1

First Page

74

Last Page

74

ISSN

2197-425X

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

40679770

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article

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