Mechanical Circulatory Support for Profound Cardiac Circulatory Shock Status Due to Postoperative Pulmonary Artery Bleeding

Abstract

A 77-year-old patient suffering from life-threatening pulmonary artery bleeding after pulmonary lobectomy was resuscitated but had refractory cardiogenic shock after the bleeding was controlled. We used mechanical circulatory support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and intra-aortic balloon pump to overcome the hemorrhagic shock-related cardiac suppression and multi-organ injury in the post-resuscitation critical period.

Key words

ECMO - hemorrhagic shock - lung cancer - postoperative complication

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