Lecture

Combat ECMO: Advanced life saving techniques under dangerous circumstances!

Shock Trauma Auditorium

Dr James H Lantry III is an Assistant Professor of Emergency, Trauma, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School and R A Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He is also the Associate Program Director Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.

Alumni Day

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  James Lantry, MD

  University of Maryland

  Contact Speaker

May 1, 2019 - 8:00 am

30 minutes

30 minutes

Dr. Lantry is a graduate of the University of Maryland Emergency Medicine residency and Critical Care Medicine fellowship. During this fellowship he, along with another fellows and the program director, created an online collaborative critical care education website (www.MarylandCCProject.com), which received the 2014 American Thoracic Society (ATS) Award for “Innovations in Fellowship Education.” After graduation Dr. Lantry went onto active duty for the USAF where he worked as a staff physician in the emergency department, Medical ICU, and Burn ICU of the largest Department of Defense (DOD) medical facility, The San Antonio Military Medical Center. Additionally, he served as an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences. Since joining the military he has held the role of vice-director DOD Inpatient Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program and co-director of the DOD ECMO transport program. Over the several years he has cannulated in all areas of the world, from Afghanistan under rocket fire to a small Honduras medical facility. He is responsible for thousands of miles of successful and complication free ECLS transport. He is co-editor of the “Concise Critical Appraisal” section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's monthly online publication, “Critical e-Connections.” For multiple years, he has also served as an instructor for SCCM’s Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course. He currently serves as the Vice President of the Baltimore Chapter of SCCM. Currently Dr. Lantry works as a vital staff member for the Lung Resuscitation Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. This is a state-of-the art ICU that is utilized purely for the treatment of ECMO patients. The presence of the LRU has assisted in the University of Maryland being in the top-3 busiest ECMO centers in the United States.

1) Review basics of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 2) Describe limitations that exist in practicing advanced healthcare in a resource limited environment. 3) Explain the logistics of long distance transport of a critically ill, unstable patient.

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