Science Journal of Clinical Medicine

Special Issue

ECMO: A Modality in Advanced Critical Care Delivery

  • Submission Deadline: Apr. 30, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Marlice van Dyk
About This Special Issue
The 7th Annual SWAAC ELSO Conference is to be hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa from 21 – 22 February. The conference aims to highlight Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a form of Advanced Critical Care. This is the first time a conference of this nature is to be hosted in South Africa.
The journal aims to have all speakers, international and local, submit a review article on the topics to be presented at the conference. In addition to this, the conference has opened up for abstract, journal and poster presentations for mainly research and review articles.
As ECMO is still a relatively new procedure within South Africa, it is felt that all measures should be exhausted to increase awareness and understanding of this modality in order to ensure optimal delivery and patient care.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
  2. Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)
  3. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
  4. eCPR
  5. Paediatric Life Support
  6. Advanced Critical Care
Lead Guest Editor
  • Marlice van Dyk

    Department of Critical Care, Netcare Unitas ECMO Centre, Centurion, South Africa

Guest Editors
  • Norbert Welkovics

    Department of Critical Care, Netcare Unitas ECMO Centre, Centurion, South Africa

  • Justiaan Swanevelder

    Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  • David Thomson

    Department of Critical Care, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Marleen Engelbrecht

    Department of Paediatric Critical Care, Netcare Unitas ECMO Centre, Centurion, South Africa

  • Pieter Scholtz

    Department of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care, Netcare Unitas ECMO Centre, Centurion, South Africa

  • Krubin Naidoo

    Department of Paediatric Critical Care, Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa