Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Support For Near Fatal Asthma

Background: Approximately 6 million children in the United States have asthma; more than half of those children will have an asthma attack at least once a year. In 2017, 185 children died secondary to their asthma (7). Near fatal asthma is a life-threatening condition of acute respiratory failure and the most severe clinical presentation of status asthmaticus. In addition to first line therapies, it often requires mechanical ventilation, inhaled volatile anesthetics, and paralysis …