Time-critical VA-ECMO-facilitated resuscitation and recovery after acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest: a case report
This case highlights the value of program-level ECPR readiness in selected patients with monitored AMI-related refractory CA during emergency percutaneous coronary intervention and should be interpreted as hypothesis-generating rather than supporting unselective VA-ECMO use in AMI complicated by CS.