The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe closed chest injury

Abstract

The clinical case of successful cure of the victim with severe closed chest injury is presented, as a result of which the life-threatening acute respiratory failure could not be compensated by artificial lung ventilation and, in connection with which the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a «life-saving technology» was required.

Keywords

• severe closed chest injury
• life-threatening acute respiratory failure
• extracorporeal membrane oxygenation