The Minnesota Mobile ECMO Program: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability

Friday, December 1, 2023

4:00 PM – 4:25 PM PST

Location: Town and Country Ballroom A

Primary Presenter(s)

Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH

Center for Resuscitation Medicine Program Director
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, United States

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Moderator(s)

Pamela Dodson, RN

Consultant
Pamela Dodson
Benicia, California, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):

Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Summary: The MN mobile ECMO project has shown success since inception in 2019. Learn about the program development, implementation process, survivor stories, the clinical study for ECMO - ARREST trial, and tools for replication and sustainability.

Synopsis: This presentation will summarize the work of Dr. Demetri Yannopoulos, Dr. Jason Bartos, and the Center for Resuscitation Medicine on the mobile ECMO project and ARREST clinical trial on ECMO.

The implementation, evaluation of performance, and report outcomes from the first program, serving an entire metropolitan area, designed to rapidly deliver extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)-facilitated resuscitation to patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) will be presented.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the impact of ECLS or ECMO for cardiac arrest on overall outcomes.
Learn about the collaboration needs between all links in the chain of survival for an ECLS program to work.
This presentation will include components of a high quality collaborative cardiovascular and resuscitation program in a dispatch, EMS and / or healthcare system that has demonstrated improvement in survival from SCA.
This presentation will include strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.
This presentation will describe one or more survivor / rescuer stories that can be used to illustrate an effective chain of survival for cardiac arrest.