Prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-assisted support provides improved survival in hypothermic patients with cardiocirculatory arrest  Elfriede Ruttmann, MD, Annemarie Weissenbacher, MD, Hanno Ulmer, PhD, Ludwig Müller, MD, Daniel Höfer, MD, Juliane Kilo, MD, Walter Rabl, MD, Birgit Schwarz, MD, Günther Laufer, MD, Herwig Antretter, MD, Peter Mair, MD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 134, Issue 3, Pages 594-600 (September 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.03.049 Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Severe pulmonary edema in a person rescued from a crevasse after successful ECMO-assisted resuscitation. Prolonged ECMO assistance was necessary for 27 hours because of massive reperfusion edema of the lung. Computed tomographic scan was performed after the patient was normothermic. ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 594-600DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.03.049) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions