ECMO Specialist Training Course

University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers

Ann Arbor , MI

The ECMO training course is offered on an average of once per year and sometimes as often as every 6 months, depending on demand. The course is designed as an ECMO Specialist Training Course and is taught in a classroom-style setting. Participants have the opportunity for "hands-on" experience with circuit priming and wet drills. The course covers the following topics:

• Introduction to ECLS
• Physiology of ECLS
• Cannulation procedures
• Nursing Care of the ECLS
• Introduction to ECLS circuits
• SVO2: Oxygen supply/demand
• VA bypass physiology and management
• VA bypass scenarios
• Priming/Initiation of bypass
• Priming Circuits (hands on)
• VV physiology and management
• VV case scenarios
• Anticoagulation
• Medical management of the Neonatal ECLS Patient
• Medical management of the Pediatric ECLS Patient
• Management of Pediatric Cardiac ECLS
• Medical management of the Adult ECLS Patient
• Hemofiltration
• Blood Products required for ECMO
• Wet drills

Course space is usually limited to maximize the hands on experience and address questions and issues.

We offer a continental breakfast each morning and afternoon refreshments each day of the course. Meals and lodging are not included.

Information on lodging and area events and attractions is available by request or visit the Ann Arbor Convention and Visitor's Bureau at http://www.annarbor.org/

If you are interested in the course, please contact Sheri Bignall, Administrative Assistant for the U of M ECMO program either by phone at (734) 763-9919 during business hours or e-mail at sbig@med.umich.edu. We will place your name on a list for notification when we are planning another course.