EDECMO Podcast

January 13, 2024

EDECMO 88: Billing with John Mehall

<p>This episode is a must for your ECMO program.  John Mehall from Innovative ECMO Concepts goes through the financial aspects of ECMO care.  He covers everything from hospital charges to physician reimbursement to areas where hospitals commonly fail.  We all know that you cannot have a successful ECMO program unless you have sufficient funding to keep it going.  This episode is critical to maintain the billing aspects of specifically US ECMO programs.  Jon Marinaro, Zack Shinar, and an entire audience of Reanimate 9 attendees join the episode to ask questions and give their own insight.</p> <p>Web Pricer (cms.gov) - your hospital weight.  Times it by DRG to get your hospital ECMO compensation.</p>

November 3, 2023

EDECMO 87: Pearls from Prague and an Update on San Diego's ECPR initiative with Saul Levine

September 6, 2023

86: UCLA ECPR with Vadim Gudzenko

<p>This episode is a follow up to last month's episode with Nichole Bosson.  Zack interviews Vadim Gudzenko about the in-patient aspects and critical care doctor perspective on the Los Angeles OHCA ECPR program.  A few take homes are that EMS is critical to any OHCA ECPR program.  Nurses need support for these intense patients with high mortality.  And emergency physicians need to buy in to the idea of ECMO for cardiac arrest to make a successful program.</p> <p> </p> <p>Upcoming Events</p> <p>Sept - ELSO - https://web.cvent.com/event/ae91fbc7-6d71-45f9-8a6f-41fe973bfd23/summary</p> <p>Oct - Prague ECPR School - https://www.ecprprague.com/</p> <p>Nov - Reanimate Reanimateconference.com </p> <p> </p> <p>Zack and Jon's Editorial about Sakuraya PE trial </p> <p> https://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(23)00267-8/pdf</p>