Dutch trial set out to save more lives using Getinge’s Cardiohelp in prehospital care
A nationwide trial has kicked off in the Netherlands as four Mobile Medical Teams join forces to offer extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) as rescue therapy for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Equipped with Getinge’s mobile heart-lung machine Cardiohelp in cars and helicopters, the teams can now use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) with the aim to save up to 200 more lives a year. There are four Mobile Medical Teams (MMT) in the Netherlands, based in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Nijmegen and Groningen. All of them have a Helicopter