Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for Refractory Cardiac Arrest.

Audience: Our target audience includes emergency medicine residents/physicians.

Introduction: Treating cardiac arrest is a common theme during simulated emergency medicine training; however, less time is focused on treating cases of cardiac arrest. There are varying definitions of refractory cardiac arrest, but it is most commonly defined as the inability to obtain return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after 10-30 minutes of appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).