Prognostic implications of complications during VA #ECLS for cardiogenic shock
🔍 ELSO Registry analysis including >22.5K adults
🪦 54% pts died during hospitalization; 74% non-survivors vs 54% survivors experienced complications
🧠 neuro complications increased mortality by 3.6
🖇️ bit.ly/4dxaHWu

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

🎤 🪑🪑🪑🪑 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!

📢 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

📢 The 3 SWAAC ELSO 2026 research webinar sessions are now available to watch on demand! What you'll take??
🎥 1️⃣ Foundations of #ECLS research & epidemiology
🎥 2️⃣ ELSO Registry: structure, access, research use
🎥 3️⃣ ECLS Research in low-and middle-income countries
Open #FOAMcc #FOAMecmo
🖇️ bit.ly/4rv2bx4

Accessibility to #ECPR pathway for #OHCA in London 🇬🇧?? Still limited!
🗺️ study analyzing 5y of routinely collected data from London Ambulance Service
🚑 776 pts met #ECMO eligibility criteria, but only 3% estimated to reach #ECLS-capable centre during operating hours and within 45'
🖇️ bit.ly/4hlPUGC

High-risk acute pulmonary embolism? VA #ECLS with early percutaneous or surgical embolectomy may provide a survival benefit over #ECMO alone
🫀🫁 Optimal outcomes will likely be achieved through integrated approach combining #MCS with prompt thrombus removal.
@asaiojournal.bsky.social
🖇️ bit.ly/4xof6lH

🫁 With editorial on #ECMO duration as predictor of outcome. Only recently we become aware of potential of pulmonary regeneration, If illness is cured and no more damage is done. A chance of recovery after months of #ECLS may be preferable to early lung #transplantation.
🖇️ bit.ly/4cv58HB

📖 Blue book chapter 27 focuses on medical complications, offering clinicians strategies to anticipate, detect, mitigate their effects in #ECLS
🩸 Bleeding/thrombosis, hemolysis, thrombocytopenia
🧫 Infections
🦵🏻 Limb ischemia
🫀 Cardiac tamponade
🫁 PTX & hemothorax
🫘 AKI
🧠 Seizures
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks