Extracorporeal Resuscitation

Intensive care medicine is a territory where life and death coexist in a fragile balance between survival and irreversible end. As an expert in ECMO, a machine that can replace the function of the lungs and heart when they fail catastrophically, Dr Jordi Riera takes us to the limits of human existence through extracorporeal resuscitation: a technique that defies the inevitable and redefines the concepts of healing and destiny. But this book not only exposes the science behind ECMO, it explores its philosophical, emotional and ethical implications in the daily struggle against death. Through real cases with personal reflections, the reader will ask questions such as when is it time to stop, what does it really mean to save a life, where do we draw the line between therapeutic obstinacy and justified hope, and where do we draw the line between therapeutic obstinacy and justified hope? An invitation to question, to understand and to feel.