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Ambulatory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation

Overview of attention for article published in CHEST, May 2015
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Title
Ambulatory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation
Published in
CHEST, May 2015
DOI 10.1378/chest.14-2188
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Authors

Carli J. Lehr, David W. Zaas, Ira M. Cheifetz, David A. Turner

Abstract

The proportion of critically ill patients awaiting lung transplantation has increased since the implementation of the Lung Allocation Score (LAS) in 2005. Critically ill patients comprise a sizable proportion of wait-list mortality and are known to experience increased posttransplant complications. These critically ill patients have been successfully bridged to lung transplantation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), but historically these patients have required excessive sedation, been immobile, and have had difficult functional recovery in the posttransplant period and high mortality. One solution to the deconditioning often seen in critically ill patients is the implementation of rehabilitation and ambulation while awaiting transplantation on ECMO. Ambulatory ECMO programs of this nature have been developed in an attempt to provide rehabilitation, physical therapy, and minimization of sedation prior to lung transplantation to improve both surgical and posttransplant outcomes. Favorable outcomes have been reported using this novel approach, but how and where this strategy should be implemented remain unclear. In this commentary, we review the currently available literature for ambulation and rehabilitation during ECMO support as a bridge to lung transplantation, discuss future directions for this technology, and address the important issues of resource allocation and regionalization of care as they relate to ambulatory ECMO.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 72 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 18%
Other 8 11%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Other 18 25%
Unknown 15 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 37 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Unspecified 3 4%
Engineering 2 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 1%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 20 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 156. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2020.
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#261,982
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#147
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