[about a juvenile transplant patient] We have to put him on ECMO.
What?
He's satting in the 80s and wearing down. His respiratory muscles are going to give out.
But ECMO could introduce an infection. It's a partial contraindication of surgery.
And Kansas is a two-hour flight. We have to keep him oxygenated 'till the lungs get here.
Those lungs only last four hours. If anything goes wrong before they get here, and he's stuck on ECMO, we may not be able to get him off. He could die.
Then we make sure that nothing goes wrong.
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