Yale New Haven Health is the first in the country to use a simpler, more compact life support system while transporting patients with heart and lung failure. Members of Yale New Haven’s SkyHealth II/Adult Critical Care Transport team and Yale New Haven Hospital’s extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) team recently used the Medtronic VitalFlow ECMO System while transporting a patient by ambulance from Greenwich Hospital to YNHH. Team members involved in the transport were (l-r) Chris Muolo, critical care transport paramedic; Tyler Wahl, chief perfusionist; and Xavier Velez, RN, critical care transport nurse. Not pictured are Kailah Fischer, perfusionist; and Dishen Lin, MD, resident.
Yale New Haven is the first in the country to use Medtronic’s simpler, more compact device to transport patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
