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      Air Medical Transport of Patients Diagnosed with Confirmed COVID-19 Infection Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). A Case Review and Lessons Learned

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          The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare delivery in every respect, including critical care resources and transport of patients requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Innovative solutions allowing for safe helicopter air transport of these critical patients is needed as ECMO resources are only available in specialty centers. We present a case demonstrating the interfacility collaboration of care for a patient with COVID-19 infection and the lessons learned from the air transport. Careful planning, coordination, communication, and teamwork contributed to the safe transport of this patient, and several others subsequently.

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          Journal
          Air Med J
          Air Med J
          Air Medical Journal
          Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Air Medical Journal Associates.
          1067-991X
          1532-6497
          28 November 2020
          28 November 2020
          Affiliations
          [1 ]LIFE STAR, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
          [2 ]Heart and Vascular Institute, Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, CT
          [3 ]Department of Emergency Medicine, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
          [4 ]Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
          [5 ]Care Logistics Center, Hartford HealthCare, Hartford, CT
          [6 ]Emergency Communications Center, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
          [7 ]Department of Pharmacy, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT
          Author notes
          [* ]Address for correspondence: Thomas Bascetta, LIFE STAR Hartford Hospital, 80 Seymour Street Hartford CT 06102
          Article
          S1067-991X(20)30284-4
          10.1016/j.amj.2020.11.015
          7698678
          33637278
          76d82354-e8d2-4d58-8db4-610be4535056
          © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Air Medical Journal Associates.

          Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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