International aircraft ECMO transportation: first French pediatric experience.

Refractory severe hemodynamic or respiratory failure may require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Since some patients are too sick to be transported safely to a referral ECMO center on conventional transportation, mobile ECMO transport teams have been developed. The experiences of some ECMO transport teams have already been reported, including air and international transport.

[Impalpable testis: value of one-stage surgical descent].

Objective: The objective of this retrospective study was to assess the value of one-stage testicular descent without spermatic vessel ligation for intraabdominal impalpable testis.

Material And Method: This study was based on 90 children with 98 impalpable testes. Laparoscopic exploration was performed in each case.