learnECMO 6: Cannulation Part 2

Neuro Resus

Cannulation Part 2

by Roger Pye

Welcome to learnECMO podcast series. This instalment is the second part of Roger Pye’s meditations on ECMO cannulation, this time focusing on Avalon, VA and the duplicitous art of backflow cannulation.

On the subject of cannulation, places for SMACCannulate are going fast so head to the SMACC website if you fancy a crack at the title of world fastest cannulator and sign-up. Now we do realise that optimal procedural ergonomics does not prioritise speed and we have had lots of enquiries about actually learning to cannulate. As such we will be offering sessions at the pop-up SMACCannulate station where all comers will be welcome for hands-on cannulation teaching. We will teach you how to finesse and troubleshoot each element of ECMO cannulation from ultrasound guided seldinger technique to mitigating the perceived disaster of a bent wire. Go to the SMACC website to register for either of these sessions.

If you are not able to join us in berlin then we will be co-hosting a cannulation workshop at ST. Thomas’s hospital in London with the GSTT ECMO team, one of the highest volume centres in the world with a highly sophisticated intensivist led ECMO retrieval service. learnECMO London will be on Monday 3rd July and you can register via learnECMO.com, come and learn some high fidelity cannulation chicanery from some proper experts.