Primary and secondary rn at bedside along with perfusionist attempting to trouble shoot cvvh (which was hooked up to the ecmo circuit) pressure issues, when secondary rn heard air in the pump head.Perfusionist immediately clamped "venous" and "arterial" cvvh lines and then clamped ecmo circuit.Secondary rn got cca to bedside while perfusion attempted to de-air the circuit.Situation progressed to code.During code, after the first de-airing, perfusionist attempted to restart ecmo, but more air got into the circuit.It was then noted that there was blood on the floor as well.Upon further inspection of the cvvh connection the clear plastic tubing had broken off of the blue connector, connecting it to the ecmo.Ecmo side port stopcock turned off and circuit successfully deaired and restarted.
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