Combined use of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and asynchronous independent lung ventilation after thoracic surgery for lung abscess

Abstract

We used independent lung ventilation (ILV) during veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO) after lung abscess surgery in a patient with severe hypoxia and air leak. ILV can be effective in V-V ECMO as unilateral lung air leak.

Keywords: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; lung abscess; pneumothorax; pulmonary atelectasis; respiratory insufficiency.