The Anterior Mediastinal Mass-the Challenging Management of Hypoxemia Despite Peripheral Cannulation for ECMO

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
• ² Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
• ³ Division of Critical Care Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
• ⁴ Cardiothoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
• ⁶ Cardiovascular and Thoracic Division, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: yiandoc@hotmail.com.
• ⁷ Cardiovascular and Thoracic Division, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.