Why ECMO Anticoagulation Monitoring Still Has No Easy Answer
Anticoagulant selection is only one part of ECMO anticoagulation management. The next question is how clinicians monitor whether that strategy is actually working. As we’ve established, with ECMO patients, bleeding and thrombosis are not opposite ends of a simple spectrum—they can coexist. A patient may be bleeding from cannulation sites while still developing circuit thrombus, or may have lab values that […]