Prague Med. Rep. 2021, 122, 61-72

https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2021.7

Extracorporeal Oxygenation Techniques in Adult Critical Airway Obstruction: A Review

Michal Pořízka1, Pavel Michálek1,2, Jiří Votruba3, Basem B. Abdelmalak4

1Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
2Department of Anaesthesia, Antrim Area Hospital, Antrim, United Kingdom
31st Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
4Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Received June 22, 2020
Accepted April 30, 2021

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