The event is fully booked, please email to linda.lindblom@svenskamoten.se for waitinglist. 

Welcome to ”Adult ECMO for respiratory failure and septic
shock”, Stockholm, October 11th – 14th 2021. 

This ELSO course is intended for physicians (intensivists, surgeons etc), nurses, perfusionists
and other health care professionals, who either work in an ECMO program or who are in the
process of starting one.


The course will be conducted by the faculty of the ECMO Center at Karolinska. It will include
simulations of ecmo patients, practical training in managing the ECMO circuit with change of
different components etc, computer simulations of physiology and didactic lectures including
aspects on Covid-19. Simulations and practical training will be performed in small groups of
6 participants together with one or two instructors.
The lectures will cover subjects like components of the ECMO circuit, indications for
ECMO, contraindications, managing the patient on ECMO, cannulation strategy, physiology,
anticoagulation, troubleshooting etc.

The number of participants is maximized to 24. Besides of the course the registration fee
(20 000 SEK incl. VAT) will cover lunches, coffee and one dinner on the 12th of October.

The course has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 27 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).

Further information: bjorn.frenckner@ki.se


Organizing committee: 
Björn Frenckner, MD, PhD Mattias Lindfors, MD  Mikael Broman, MD, PhD Jonas Lindholm, MD

Conflict of interest statements

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