A 77-year-old patient suffering from life-threatening pulmonary artery bleeding after pulmonary lobectomy was resuscitated but had refractory cardiogenic shock after the bleeding was controlled. We used mechanical circulatory support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and intra- aortic balloon pump to overcome the hemorrhagic shock- related cardiac suppression and multi-organ injury in the post-resuscitation critical period.
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THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGEON v.54 n.3 pp.214-215
