What is EOLIA trial?
What is EOLIA trial?
The EOLIA trial was an multi-center, randomized, open-label trial which randomized patients with severe ARDS to receiving early VV ECMO or conventional mechanical ventilation with an option to use ECMO as a rescue therapy.
What does eolia stand for?
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (EOLIA)
| Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
| Official Title: | Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation(ECMO) for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) |
| Actual Study Start Date : | December 8, 2011 |
| Actual Primary Completion Date : | July 2017 |
What does ECMO do?
Essentially, ECMO helps these patients by acting as their heart and lungs. The machine is used when all other medical options have been exhausted for patients whose lungs can’t provide enough oxygen to their body or rid themselves of carbon dioxide.
Are you breathing on ECMO?
Patients on ECMO are usually helped with their breathing by having a tube called an endotracheal tube (ET tube) placed in their mouth. The tube will be attached to a ventilating machine to help support the patient with breathing, and in some cases will actually breathe for them.
Are ECMO patients intubated?
Patients who are on ECMO are already connected to a ventilator (breathing machine) through a tube (endotracheal or ET tube) that is placed in the mouth or nose and down into the windpipe. They are thus intubated.
Can someone be awake on ECMO?
Once connected to an ECMO machine, the cannulae are not painful. People who are on an ECMO machine may be given medicines (sedatives or pain controllers) to keep them comfortable. These medicines may also make them sleepy. Some people are awake and can talk and interact with people while on an ECMO machine.