Resuscitation for moribund alpinists stranded at high altitudes: A stepwise approach including ECMO as a last resort strategy

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
• ² Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IRCCS-ISMETT), Palermo, Italy.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Nepal Mediciti Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.