Inaugural ELSO Women in #ECMO WiE Webinar YouTube video by ELSO Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

🎥 Recording of the Inaugural Women in #ECMO WiE Webinar, Crossing Borders, is now available
🔓 youtu.be/Xj9LilT0B7Y

Reminder!! The Inaugural Women in #ECMO Webinar: Women from diverse backgrounds shaping the future of global ECMO through multidisciplinary innovation will be live in few hours!!
📆 April 22, 2026
⏰ 11am- 12pm EDT
Open to everyone, no registration required, direct Zoom link to join
🔓 bit.ly/4dCF4M3

Predictive algorithm for VV #ECMO, PAL VV
⚖️ development & evaluation of #AI driven models for prognostication
⚙️ training/validation data -> ELSO Registry
ECMO PAL VV had strong accuracy, sensitivity, precision to predict survival to discharge, outperforming existing published scores
🔓 rdcu.be/feFw6

#ECMO in patients with traumatic brain injury and/or requiring neurosurgery: outcomes, complications & management
🧠 TBI should not be considered an absolute contraindication: #ECLS can be safely utilized. Successful outcomes relied on collaborative efforts + minimal anticoagulation.
🔓 rdcu.be/fd9n9

@asaiojournal.bsky.social

Preoperative VA #ECMO in ventricular septal rupture complicating AMI:
🔍 analysis of ELSO Registry: 370 adults, 2000–2025
🪦 high in-hospital mortality = 68%; survivors significantly younger and less severely ill, with longer run/LoS (shorter run/LoS likely due to early mortality?)
🔗 bit.ly/4tS6NwY

🎓 The ELSO Adult #ECMO #simulation course is ongoing!! 📸
Next sessions:
📆 Nov 9-10 or 11-12, 2026
📌 ELSO Headquarters, Ann Arbor MI
🛠️ hands on learning in small groups
🚧 troubleshooting
🫀🫁 case scenarios
Discounts may be available
Register at 🎓 bit.ly/ELSOAcademy
📬 info at ecmotraining@elso.org

📢 Crossing Borders - 1️⃣ week to the Inaugural Women in #ECMO Webinar: Women from diverse backgrounds shaping the future of global ECMO through multidisciplinary innovation
📆 April 22, 2026
⏰ 11am- 12pm EDT
Open to everyone, no registration required, direct Zoom link to join
🔓 bit.ly/4dCF4M3

📢 Train the Trainers: the course to prepare #ECMO educators to design, deliver, evaluate high-quality, simulation-based training in accordance with ELSO educational standards.
🎯 Target: ECMOlogists w substantial experience (min 5-7 y) in ECLS
📆 15-17 July 2026
📌 Barcelona
📫 gestio@aulavallhebron.cat

📢 Women in #ECMO Webinar:
🖥️ Host C Stead, CEO of ELSO
🎤 faculty: AE Hackmann, J Arens, D Bonadonna
🎤 moderators: J Swol, M Tukacs, W Chen
📆 April 22, 2026
⏰ 11am- 12pm EDT
it is open to everyone.
No registration required, direct Zoom link
🔓 bit.ly/4dCF4M3
Take a look at preliminary agenda below ⬇️

🫀 🫁 Parallel dual-lumen VV #ECMO post #ECPR? Strategy to address severe differential oxygenation. This approach is an alternative to hybrid ECMO, if respiratory failure occurs after emergent VA initiation, due to initial pathology or subsequent lung injury.
@asaiojournal.bsky.social
🖇️ bit.ly/4tDvH3i

📢 First Global #ECMO Team Day! The annual date is set to honor ELSO's Founder, Dr. Bartlett on his birthday: 📆 May 8th.
Dr B was a strong advocate for the whole team involved in ECMO. To everyone involved: thank you for your expertise, teamwork, commitment.
How will you celebrate ECMO Team Day?

📢 Relentless curiosity... this the theme of 37th annual conference of ELSO: agenda with topics, sessions, and talks to be announced soon.
📆 Sep 28- Oct 1
📌 Nashville, TN
Registrations open
🖇️ bit.ly/ELSO2026
PS Are you working on your #ELSO2026 abstracts?? Deadline for submission: June 17, 2026 ⏰

Neuromuscular blocking agents in #ECMO
🔍 cohort study including 280 pts
💉 nearly 50% of patients required NMBAs during the run
🎯 when used for hypoxemia or low flow, NMBAs administration associated with improved PaO2 & EBF
Neuromuscular dysfunction infrequent (under-reported?)
🖇️ bit.ly/4si0Hos

📖 #ECPR, Chapter 18:
🫀introduction
🔍 evidence
⚖️ pt selection
⚙️ team & program organization
📦 materials
🚑 logistics
🎓 training/competencies
🩺 ECPR procedure
🧠 neuroprognostication, outcomes and organ donation
📘 The Blue Book: latest edition of ELSO #ECMO Specialist Training Manual
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks

The SWAACELSO Research webinar series - Foundations of ECLS research & epidemiologic methods
🔍 Observational Studies in #ECLS
⚖️ Beyond propensity score: modern matching methods
🎯 Emulation of target trials for #ECMO
📆 April 8 2026
⏰ 7-8:30 am New York 🇺🇸, Toronto 🇨🇦
Register now!
🔗 bit.ly/4c7FOpU

Standardization of in vitro evaluation of #ECLS devices for research and development, on behalf of @eacts.bsky.social Innovation Committee, Section CPB, ECLS & MCS, & EuroELSO Innovation Group
🩸 cannulae
📦 tubing packs
🩸 blood pumps
🫁 membrane lungs
🩸 hemocompatibility
#FOAMcc #ECMO
🔓 bit.ly/48byRD8

🎥 Recording of the latest #EuroELSOwebinar: Evolving concepts in anticoagulation is now online!
🩸 Anticoagulation and antiplatelets in VV #ECLS
🩸 Anticoagulation and antiplatelets in VA #ECMO
🩸 Anticoagulation and antiplatelets in #ECPR
🎙 Discussion
🔓 youtube.com/watch?v=NXmz8B5-_4k

ECMO Transport course – joint conference EuroELSO/ESPNIC - EuroElso ECMO Transport course – joint conference EuroELSO/ESPNIC 16-18 September 2026 Rome/Italy Participate in this International Course on Neonatal and Pediatric ECLS Transport is developed in collaboration between faculty from EuroELSO & ESPNIC Societies and ECMO Centre in University Hospital Bambino Gesu Hospital andGiovan Battista Pastine Rome Ciampino Airport. Description:This International ECMO Transport Course is developed by […]

📢 International course on neo & peds #ECMO transport
🚑 🚁 various transport modes
✈️ aeromedicine
🚧 risks/working conditions
📋 logistical aspects
📦 equipment
⚙️ troubleshoot complications
📋 legal/insurance considerations
🪑 30 multidisciplinary participants
📆 16-18 Sep 2026
📌 Rome 🇮🇹
🔗 bit.ly/47A2YE2

ELSO 2025 guideline on #ECMO training & continuing education
🎓 methodologies
📋 minimum standards for initial/ongoing training, simulation, case volume, developing effective instructors
📜 assessment /certification: E-AEC/ E-NPEC
🎓 becoming ELSO endorsed training center
🔓https://bit.ly/3NzTwdd

#ECLS for post-cardiotomy acute RV failure:
🔍 multicenter, international, study including > 2K adults, 2000 - 2020
🫀patients requiring #ECMO for PC aRVF, despite higher pre-operative risks and complex clinical courses, achieve survival rates comparable to other indications.
🔗 bit.ly/4tho1DB

📖 VA #ECMO in adults: Chapter 17 of Blue Book is focused on adults requiring circulatory support
🩺 indications
🩸 cannulation
🫁 gas exchange, ventilation, monitoring
🩺 care
🚧 complications
🫀 weaning/decannulation
📘 latest edition of ECMO Specialist Training Manual available!
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks

Major bleeding during VA #ECMO for cardiac failure
🔍 558 adults included, 2016–2023
🩸severe major bleeding developed in nearly ½ of pts and was associated with increased mortality. Trajectories of coagulation & inflammatory markers underscore dynamic nature of bleeding risk.
🔓 rdcu.be/faryP

Lesson 2 of the NextGen Speakers’ Training Course! To meet our amazing NextGen Speakers don't forget to register for EuroELSO annual congress #EuroELSO2026
euroelso-congress.com
📌 Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
🗓️ pre-congress: May 6-7, 2026
🗓️ congress: May 7-9, 2026

🛏 Be part of ‘Circuit Chatter'!
📢 To fulfil the desire by Dr Bartlett to pass the torch, ELSO launched an invitation to contribute with brief #ECMO cases history, 300-700 words. This will then be edited/published.
⏳ Deadline for next ELSO newsletter is April 15, 2026
📬 email newsletter@elso.org

Ventricular arrhythmia & VA #ECMO: STORM-ECMO study
🇫🇷 French multicenter study
🫀 ablation associated with higher ECMO weaning success, particularly if performed within early days after cannulation
⚖️ benefit greatest if ablation performed within first days of support
🔓 rdcu.be/e92he

🚧 #ECMO complications: broad challenge facing community? Distinguishing adverse events attributable to ECMO from those driven by underlying illness.
🔓 rdcu.be/e9Ibj

🧫 On SAVECMO study, establishing consensus on definition, diagnosis, management for peripheral cannula-site infection.
🔓 rdcu.be/e9IkE

VV #ECMO candidacy decision-making process: why & to whom is offered?
⚖️ interpretation/incorporation of age, BMI, MV time variable
⚖️ contraindications flexible depending on ethical/social criteria
⚖️ cognitive biases/heuristics impact
⚖️ institutional/cultural contexts shape decisions
🔓 bit.ly/484tzt0

#ECMO decision-making process:
🔍 study aimed to characterize how clinicians approach candidacy selection, criteria considered + relative weight
Decisions to pursue VV ECMO for severe respiratory failure were largely based on clinical judgments of suitability vs objective guidelines
🔓 bit.ly/484tzt0

Grateful for an incredible couple of days at @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social & ELSO #SCCM2026 pre-conference #ECMO #simulation course!
🎓 From lectures to hands-on learning - the depth of discussion and collaboration continues to push our #ECLS practice forward!