The Department of Health Services (DHS) is seeking Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) trainings for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Nurses and Surgeons as follows: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (HUCLA) is in critical need of an eCPR program that will allow Nursing staff and Surgeons to provide direct life-saving treatments to patients. The timely implementation of an eCPR program is predicated on having ECMO trained Nurses and Surgeons and will permit HUCLA broader community involvement as an eCPR Center with the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency – which is the lead agency for the emergency medical services in the County. When patients are routed in an EMS approved eCPR Center, critical patients have a higher survival rate and neurologic recovery (their brain recovers), therefore decreasing death and/or disability. However, in order to establish an eCPR program, HUCLA Nursing staff and Surgeons require specialized ECMO training to provide direct care to ECMO patients, as this life-saving treatment is not currently offered by our team. Upon successful completion of the ECMO training, HUCLA staff will play a critical leading role in the immediate implementation of an eCPR program and assume full-time responsibility for the care of ECMO patients and the management of ECMO machines.
