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Brittany Behrendt posted a reply on Re: Pediatric ECMO Prime Gas
Friday, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Said: Yes, at our facility, they do a prime sample when initiating the pumps. We have Telcor and are switching from Sunquest to Epic in the fall. We have Telcor set up to receive pump arterial or venous samples if selected. Telcor sends that ...
Jeremy MacDonald posted a reply on Re: Pediatric ECMO Prime Gas
Friday, Feb 27, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Said: To answer your question,Yes, staff perform priming testing in both Ecmo and CVOR circulatory pumps using the POC analyzers. This testing is done on the fluid prior to the patient blood being introduced... so it's NOT repre...
Debra Howard posted a reply on Re: Pediatric ECMO Prime Gas
Friday, Feb 27, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Said: I asked our ECMO manager. Here is his response:As for this question, for all blood primed circuits, we do a circuit gas. The most common things that I look at in that gas are the PCO2 and PaO2, is the oxygenator doing its ...
Sara Otto posted a reply on Re: Subtherapeutic ACT values after standard he...
Friday, Feb 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Said: I have had 2 events since late November where the ACT-c did not increase after multiple doses of Heparin. What do you tell your Cath Lab/ OR staff to do as ACT by iSTAT is the only ACT available here? What is the recommended...
Falynn Florane posted a new Topic
Thursday, Feb 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Pediatric ECMO Prime Gas
Prime gases for ECMO
Does anyone's Perfusion team or ECMO activation team run prime gases before putting a patient on ECMO? I am trying to figure out if these results should cross the patient's chart, bill the patient, and how to create an order in RALS and Epic to do so.
Any information is greatly appreciated.
Does anyone's Perfusion team or ECMO activation team run prime gases before putting a patient on ECMO? I am trying to figure out if these results should cross the patient's chart, bill the patient, and how to create an order in RALS and Epic to do so.
Any information is greatly appreciated.
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