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How to implement #CRRT in #ECMO? Best practices by Joint ADQI & @theelso.bsky.social Consensus Conference are out!
📋 institutional standards for delivery
🔧 technical considerations
⚠️ integration into ECMO vs use of separate access sites
🔑 KPIs
🩸 choice of anticoagulation
#FOAMcc
🔓 bit.ly/4hLY0K2

The ELSO 🧸 Neo/Peds simulation course #PedsICU is ongoing in Ann Arbor, MI!!
Students are training in small multidisciplinary groups, using VA & VV #ECMO patient case scenarios, with lot of opportunities for hands on learning and troubleshooting.
Next course?? Fall 2027 📬 [email protected]

Guidelines
Standardization of In-Vitro Evaluation of Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Devices for Research and Development
ASAIO Journal 72(7): p 525-538, July 2026. | DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002623
https://ow.ly/SKu850ZWQ4s
#ASAIOJ #ASAIOJournal #ECLS #in-vitrotesting #ECMO

Percutaneous adult #ECMO #cannulation workshop ongoing in 📌 in Ann Arbor! The trainees had multiple hands-on opportunities to cannulate, and strengthen their approach to challenging cases
🎓 Next available 1 day sessions??
📆 April 16, 17 OR 18, 2026 (🪑 few seats!)

Cannulas are direct/indispensable interface between patients & #ECMO but may also cause severe side-effects, as thrombosis and hemolysis! Simulation study evaluating impact of drainage cannulas design
🔓 rdcu.be/jMXLG1avSyoa

Simulation study on impact of drainage cannulas in #ECMO
🩸 current design? no-flow/stagnation areas, which may induce thrombosis, especially if EBF <2LPM
🩸 largest flow proportion drains through proximal holes
⚙️ new design improves pressure loss, but increases distal no-flow
🔓 rdcu.be/jMXLG1avSyoa

Complications on VA #ECMO have significant/cumulative effect on survival. Patients without complications within the first 3 weeks had highest survival. Absolute 30-day risk of mortality greater if complications, increasing from 49% (0 complications) to 93% with neuro complication
🖇️ bit.ly/4dxaHWu

🏅 The team led by Prof Sung-Min Cho & Prof Glenn Whitman at Johns Hopkins Hospital received the RH Bartlett Best Abstract Award at #ELSO2026, for their study on early hypocapnia burden and three-month cognitive impairment after #ECMO 🧠.
Read abstract on @asaiojournal.bsky.social at
📘 bit.ly/4yGdTYo

Pulmonary arterial pressure in VA #ECMO for patients with acute cardiogenic shock?
🔍 > 7.6K adults with CS from the ELSO Registry, 2015 - 2020; >3K managed with PACs
🖥️ Early on-support PAD potentially important hemodynamic marker during VA #ECLS.
🖇️ bit.ly/4hH8ysu

Pulmonary arterial pressure in VA #ECMO for acute CS
🔍 ELSO Registry analysis
🖥️ invasive hemodynamic assessed at 24h
PAC alone not associated w lower mortality, but helped assess variables associated with lower mortality: higher PAD at 24h associated w graded increase in mortality.
🖇️ bit.ly/4hH8ysu

Acute Kidney Injury after initiating #ECMO in children? persistent AKI frequent and independently associated with major adverse kidney events at 30 days (MAKE30); no association if transient AKI
🖇️ bit.ly/4djcWN1
🫘 Coming with editorial: Do #AKI phenotypes MAKE a difference in #ECMO?
🖇️ bit.ly/3VwivBF

Celebrating Dr Robert Bartlett, father of #ECMO at #ELSO2026
🎶 musical tribute by J Zwischenberger
💡 Bartlett Lecture by P O'Rourke: be curious, tenacious & collaborative as Dr B has been!
💡 lecture on spirit of innovation/legacy that he left us by N Barrett
Thank you Bob! 🙏🏻

🎤 🪑🪑🪑🪑 Packed room for #ELSO2026 pre-conference in Nashville! We heard about evolution of ELSO #ECLS education, opportunities and resources for #ECMO education/training through ELSO, how to achieve Center of Excellence status, building high-performing ECMO programs, and had fun with the ECMO trivia.

🍾 @theelso.bsky.social - Extracorporeal Life Support Organization family & friends celebrated our Executive Director Peter Rycus, honouring him for 30 years of service to the #ECMO #ECLS Community! 🥂... Happening in Nashville, waiting for #ELSO2026!

🔟a edició d’ECMOBARNA, el curs teoricopràctic de #VallHebron sobre suport vital extracorpori #ECMO, amb @ELSOOrg Endorsement.

📅 26 octubre – 6 novembre

Inscripcions 👉 https://vallhebron.social/10ecmobarna

🔎 grants intended to support small projects related to #ECMO
🔍research must address an important question which can be answered within time/budget constraints
⏱️ research must be completed in time to present at next ELSO meeting
📖 results must be submitted for publication within 1y of receiving grant

📢 The EXACT Study team is seeking participation from #ECMO practitioners for our Job Task Analysis survey 🔍
Share experiece/insights to help ensure that realities of #ECLS practice are reflected in future standards + workforce development efforts
🔗 Adult: bit.ly/4rvumf6
🔗 Neo/Peds: bit.ly/3T8zzgp

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation without invasive mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome: an international cohort study @atscommunity.bsky.social #ECMO
doi.org/10.1093/ajrc...

Membrane lung dead space in #ECMO: related with failure?
📦 circuits requiring replacement had higher MLDS + lower CO2 in exhaust gas + ML CO2 removal
MLDS could be associated with other performance indicators (as resistances), contributing to better understanding of ML physiology
🔓 bit.ly/4yUDVqr