An elderly patient had hypertension (htn), a myocardial infarction (mi) and was in shock.The patient had major vessel occlusions and was catheterized and resuscitated, but required an intra-aortic balloon pump (iabp).The flight team was requested from our facility to pick the patient up at the outside facility and transport them back to our facility for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo).The transport team arrived and attempted to switch the patient to the maquet cardiosave hybrid iabp.The team could not get an electrocardiogram (ekg) tracing on the iabp regardless of using alternate cables, connectors, etc., and therefore, were not able to transport the patient who required an inflight ekg tracing for balloon pump management.The patient ultimately was transported by another carrier by ambulance, coded en route and was returned to the sending hospital where she died.Manufacturer response: they could not duplicate the problem; however, they did determine that the unit displayed corrupt date and time on the log printout, and they replaced the executive processor board.
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