Saying no until the moment is right: initiating ECMO in the EOLIA era

Graeme MacLaren^{1

2}, Alain Combes^{3

4}, Daniel Brodie^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119074, Singapore. gmaclaren@iinet.net.au.
² Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia. gmaclaren@iinet.net.au.
³ Sorbonne University, INSERM Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMRS) 1166, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France.
⁴ Service de Medecine Intensive-Reanimation, Institut de Cardiologie, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (APHP) Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France.
⁵ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
⁶ Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.

Graeme MacLaren et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;46(10):1894-1896.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06185-1. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Graeme MacLaren^{1

2}, Alain Combes^{3

4}, Daniel Brodie^{5

6}

¹ Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119074, Singapore. gmaclaren@iinet.net.au.
² Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia. gmaclaren@iinet.net.au.
³ Sorbonne University, INSERM Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMRS) 1166, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France.
⁴ Service de Medecine Intensive-Reanimation, Institut de Cardiologie, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris (APHP) Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France.
⁵ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.
⁶ Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.

No abstract available

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