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Vaping is linked to severe ARDS requiring ECMO support in adults.
Vaping can lead to severe lung injury (EVALI) and ARDS requiring advanced life support such as ECMO.
Alerts clinicians to severe vaping complications requiring ECMO outside the US; extends EVALI reports geographically but leaves incidence and mechanisms open.
In the past decade, vaping has become more prevalent globally. Since mid-2019, reports have linked the use of vaping devices to lung injury (EVALI). This is the first reported adult case outside the USA to require ECMO for a severe vaping complication.https://bit.ly/39hf2ZY
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Patterson et al. (2020) studied this question. Vaping can result in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, as demonstrated by the first reported adult case outside the USA.
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