Nursing care of 13 critically ill patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for intra-hospital transfer / 中华护理杂志

ABSTRACT

This paper summarized nursing care in intra-hospital transfer of 13 critically ill patients with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The key points to guarantee safety of critically ill patients were establishing a well-trained professional team and developing standardized procedures,and applying checklist for ECMO Transfer. The key points in nursing were assessment and pretreatment,homogenized nursing during transfer and effective handover after transfer. As a result,six cases of avian influenza patients successfully completed CT ex-amination,five cases of lung re-transplant patients and two cases of lung transplant patients were successfully trans-ferred to the operating room.