In this episode, I’ll be joined by two experts in the field of adult venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation – Dr. of Emergency Medicine Joe Bellezzo and Dr. of Pharmacy Ashkan Khabazian.

The next Masterclass for my Critical Care Pharmacy Academy will go live August 4th, 2017 and will be a deeper dive into specific, practical aspects of the pharmacotherapy of ECMO beyond what is covered in this episode. You can sign up to be part of the academy at pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Links discussed on the show

EDECMO.org

The ED ECMO podcast in iTunes

The episode on the doc bringing arrests from community to cath lab for ECMO

The REANIMATE conference

Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

About the guests

Bio for Joe Bellezzo

Joe Bellezzo is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, California. Joe is the first Emergency Medicine-trained physician to successfully perform ECPR as salvage therapy in a patient with refractory cardiac arrest. Together with Zack Shinar, Joe co-hosts the EDECMO podcast, is co-chair of the Emergency Department ECMO Program at his hospital and is the co-host of the endovascular resuscitation conference “REANIMATE.”

You can connect with Joe here:

@drbellezzo, +drbellezzo, EDECMO contact page

Bio for Ashkan Khabazian

Dr. Ashkan “Ash” Khabazian currently serves as lead emergency room clinical pharmacist at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. He received his doctor of pharmacy from the University of Michigan in 2004 and then completed a general practice residency at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California.

The best part of Ash’s bio was provided to me by Dr. Bellezzo who says:

Ashkan is truly the MAN in our ED. He has changed the way we practice Emergency Medicine and is a true innovator. When I’m coding a patient, regardless of whether we are using ECMO, REBOA, ACLS, or just WI-FI he is there pushing the envelope. He comes to me, all the time, with suggestions on how to best manage pharm issues.

You can connect with Ashkan here:

https://www.visualcv.com/ashkankhabazian

http://www.ashkankhabazian.com/

http://ashkankhabazian.blogspot.com/

https://about.me/ashkankhabazian

https://ashkankhabazian.wordpress.com/2017/07/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashkan-khabazian-pharmd-emergency-medicine-16b9b582/

Vasopressin clarification

The vasopressin dose Ashkan uses is 0.03 to 0.04 units per minute (not 0.3 / 0.4).

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