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October 19, 2020
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The use of ECMO in ICU. Recommendations of the Spanish Society of Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units

Publicated to:Medicina Intensiva. 43 (2): 108-120 - 2019-03-01 43(2), DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2018.09.017

Authors: Fernández-Mondéjar E; Fuset-Cabanes M; Grau-Carmona T; López-Sánchez M; Peñuelas; Pérez-Vela J; Pérez-Villares J; Rubio-Muñoz J; Solla-Buceta M

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Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias - Author
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada - Author
Hospital Universitari I Politècnic la Fe - Author
Hospital Universitario 12 de octubre - Author
Hospital Universitario de Getafe - Author
Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla - Author
Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro - Author
Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA - Author
Universitario - Author
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Abstract

© 2018 The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation systems has increased significantly in recent years; given this reality, the Spanish Society of Critical Intensive Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) has decided to draw up a series of recommendations that serve as a framework for the use of this technique in intensive care units. The three most frequent areas of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation systems use in our setting are: as a cardiocirculatory support, as a respiratory support and for the maintenance of the abdominal organs in donors. The SEMICYUC appointed a series of experts belonging to the three working groups involved (Cardiological Intensive Care and CPR, Acute Respiratory Failure and Transplant work group) that, after reviewing the existing literature until March 2018, developed a series of recommendations. These recommendations were posted on the SEMICYUC website to receive suggestions from the intensivists and finally approved by the Scientific Committee of the Society. The recommendations, based on current knowledge, are about which patients may be candidates for the technique, when to start it and the necessary infrastructure conditions of the hospital centers or, the conditions for transfer to centers with experience. Although from a physiopathological point of view, there are clear arguments for the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation systems, the current scientific evidence is weak, so studies are needed that define more precisely which patients benefit most from the technique and when they should start.

Keywords

cardiogenic shockdepuración extracorpórea de anhídrido carbónicodonación en asistoliaextracorporeal carbon dioxide removalextracorporeal membrane oxygenationhipoxemia refractarianon heart beating donationoxigenación con membrana extracorpórearefractory hypoxemiaCardiogenic shockExtracorporeal carbon dioxide removalExtracorporeal membrane oxygenationNon heart beating donationRefractory hypoxemiaShock cardiogénico

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Medicina Intensiva, and although the journal is classified in the quartile Q3 (Agencia WoS (JCR)), its regional focus and specialization in Critical Care Medicine, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.17, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 12.8 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-05, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 13
  • Scopus: 19

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 85.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 203 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.95.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Granada.