First Stage Elephant Trunk Technique and Bentall Procedure with Circulatory Arrest using Retrograde and Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion for Root, Ascending, Arch and Descending Aortic Aneurysm in a Patient with Loeys-Dietz Syndrome (Video)

Scavenging Gas Outlet Ports with COVID-19 ECMO and new FDA Recommendations for ECMO

The use of vacuum on the gas outlet port of a membrane oxygenator is a safe practice, if done using vacuum <10 mmHg and tubing with an open leur connector, open wye connector or a cut in the vacuum tubing. It is also advisable to turn the vacuum source off when there is no gas flow through the membrane oxygenator.