HEMS Debrief - Cardiac Arrest Focus #15, the Perspective from Paris

G'day and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS Debrief podcast - this is our focused mini-series on Cardiac Arrest. Today's episode is a big one. We have the absolute privilege of speaking to the Dr Alice Hutin and Prof Lionel Lamhaut from the pre-hospital ECMO team in Paris, France. The team, part of the Service d’Aide Medical d’Urgence (aka SAMU) in Paris, have been performing pre-hospital ECMO for OOHCA since 2011. For the past 10 years, the team have been available 24/7, working in concert with the pre-hospital ICU team dispatched to cardiac arrests in the greater Paris region. Truly ground-breaking, Alice and Lionel join us to reflect on over a decade of pre-hospital ECPR care, system implementation and challenges. Too, and perhaps most significantly, Alice and Lionel reflect on the extent to which the pre-hospital ECPR service has influenced every step of the chain of survival in the Paris system - promoting high quality basic and advanced life support at multiple levels within the pre-hospital response. Too, Sam does not shy away from asking some tough questions around just who should be performing ECPR - high specialised, limited access services or should this therapy be adopted and delivered more widely. This is part one of a two part episode, and is an absolute cracker. Be sure to tune in to part two very soon! We are delighted to be sponsored by Corpuls - delivering high-tech and innovative equipment for emergency and intensive care medicine for over 35 years.

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HEMS Debrief - Cardiac Arrest Focus #15, the Perspective from Paris is an episode from Podcasts – Greater Sydney Area HEMS by Sydney HEMS Team and Friends.

This episode is 51:40 long.

This episode was published on Dec 8, 2025.

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