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UI Children's Hospital
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    - The ECMO Intranet
      (password required)
    - ECLSnet (password required)
    - ICON (password required)

UI Hospitals and Clinics
Is Home to the Only
ECMO Center in Iowa

ECMO is a type of mechanical life support for infants, children, and adults with life-threatening illness or injury. In some ways, ECMO is similar to cardiac bypass surgery. It takes over the work of the heart and lungs, allowing the patient’s heart and lungs time to rest and heal. ECMO stand for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

The UI ECMO Center is the only ECMO center in Iowa and one of the few programs in the nation that supports adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients. The program supports patients at the bedside for as little as a few hours, up to several weeks.

The program began in 1994 with the neonatal population and has expanded to include pediatrics and adults. Continuous research and quality improvement measures are conducted at UI Hospitals and Clinics, as well as nationally and internationally, to provide ECMO patients with the best outcome possible.

University of Iowa will host the 20th annual national SEECMO conference in the spring of 2010. Information about the conference will be available soon.

Contact Us

Shanna Seigel, RRT, CHT
ECMO Program Coordinator
shanna-seigel@uiowa.edu
Office Phone: 319-384-9707
Cell/Pager 319-471-1559

Elizabeth A. Moore, RN, BSN
Assistant Program Coordinator
elizabeth-a-moore@uiowa.edu
Office Phone: 319-384-9068
Pager #5516

M. Teresa Julich, RN, BSN, CCRN
Assistant Program Coordinator
m-julich@uiowa.edu
Office Phone 319-384-9068
Pager #5526

William Lynch, MS, MD
ECMO Program Director
william-lynch@uiowa.edu
Office Phone 319-353-6451

UI Hospitals and Clinics
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242

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