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ELSO ECMO Rehab 2024 — Extracorporeal Life Support Organization 2024 Guideline for Early Rehabilitation or Mobilization of Adult Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, 2025
Early rehabilitation or mobilization can be considered during ECMO in appropriately selected patients when cannula security, hemodynamics, oxygenation, staffing and rescue capability permit. Mobilization should be protocolized and multidisciplinary rather than assumed unsafe solely because ECMO is present.
Conditional recommendationLow certainty
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Disease ReferenceECMO: Physiology, Bedside Management & Troubleshooting
Specialist-level VV/VA ECMO bedside management: selection, cannulation, gas exchange, hemodynamics, anticoagulation, circuit troubleshooting, organ support, ultrasound, ECPR, weaning and decannulation.
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Post-ICU Syndrome, Survivorship & Rehabilitation
Prevention, recognition and follow-up of physical, cognitive and psychological morbidity after critical illness, including ICU-acquired weakness and family impact.
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