Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a human immunodeficiency virus infected patient with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome

Table 2 Complications and their treatment during ECMO

ICU day	Complications	Treatment/Procedures
1- 59	Bilateral pneumothorax	Pleural cavity drainage
25, 31, 51	Pulmonary hemorrhage	Endobroncheal hemostasis
38	Tilt of left jugular vein cannula with blood loss of 2 liters	Cannula reinserted, transfusions of packed red blood cells and platelets
46	Blood-clot masses in pleural cavity	Open right side thoracotomy with clot removal and lung decortication
48	Left side tension pneumothorax with cardiogenic shock	Pleural cavity drainage, resuscitation
52	Bleeding from tracheostoma	Endobroncheal hemostasis
52	Endrobronchial clot-masses	Bronchoscopy and clot-mass removal
60	Cannula associated deep vein thrombosis	Heparin, compression therapy

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