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How to wean a patient from veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

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Abbreviations

CS:

Cardiogenic shock

LVEF:

Left ventricular ejection fraction

LV:

Left ventricle

RV:

Right ventricle

VA-ECMO:

Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

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  1. Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris Descartes Paris, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015, Paris, France

    Nadia Aissaoui

  2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Aly El-Banayosy

  3. Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France

    Alain Combes

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Aissaoui, N., El-Banayosy, A. & Combes, A. How to wean a patient from veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Intensive Care Med 41, 902–905 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3663-y

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