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🎞️ Recordings of our recent webinar: ELSO Registry Tips & Tricks to Data Entry, is now available for anyone interested for everyone in the #ECMO community who wants to improve their expertise in navigating into Registry tools & optimize data entry. Open access #FOAMcc #FOAMecmo
🎥 youtu.be/VasZ-Oa7EKM
January 22, 2026 at 4:05 AM
📖 Tubing, Connectors, Others... Blue Book Chapter 10 is focused on peripheral components of #ECMO circuit
⚙️ tubings, connectors & bridge
💧 coatings
🌡️ thermal units
🩸 flowmeters
📘 The Blue Book: latest edition of #ECMO Specialist Training Manual is available in the ELSO bookstore!
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks
January 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Hurry up!! Register to our webinar, live in 24h!! ELSO Registry: Tips & Tricks to Data Entry
🖥️ Registry overview & tools available
🖥️ manual data entry
🖥️ Redcap/XML & automated XML submission
🖥️ third-party data abstraction
📆 Tomorrow, January 21, 2026
⏰ 11-12 AM US ET
🔗 bit.ly/RegistryWebi...
January 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Reposted
Preoperative #ECMO in children with dextro-transposition of the great arteries undergoing arterial switch operation
⚖️ 70% ASO on ECMO: more complications/higher mortality (61%) vs preop weaning
If possible preASO ECLS weaning may improve outcome?
@pedcritcaremed.bsky.social #PedsICU
🔗 bit.ly/4bCrU0n
Preoperative #ECMO in children with dextro-TGA undergoing arterial switch operation
🔍 analysis of ELSO Registry, 2000-22
🍼 100 neonates aged up to 21 days
🪦 overall mortality 33%
⚖️ 70% underwent ASO on #ECLS; they had more complications/higher mortality (61%) vs those weaned preop
🔗 bit.ly/4bCrU0n
January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Preoperative #ECMO in children with dextro-TGA undergoing arterial switch operation
🔍 analysis of ELSO Registry, 2000-22
🍼 100 neonates aged up to 21 days
🪦 overall mortality 33%
⚖️ 70% underwent ASO on #ECLS; they had more complications/higher mortality (61%) vs those weaned preop
🔗 bit.ly/4bCrU0n
January 19, 2026 at 4:29 PM
🖥️ ELSO Registry: Tips & Tricks to data entry webinar
🎤 overview of registry/tools available
🎤 manual data entry
🎤 Redcap/XML & automated XML submission
🎤 third-party data abstraction

📆 January 21
⏰ 11-12 AM US ET
Register 🔗 bit.ly/RegistryWebi...
🎥 Replay will be available www.youtube.com/@TheELSO
January 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Reposted
VenoPulmonary #ECLS: current use across different clinical conditions, adverse events, outcomes, prognostic drivers:
🫀🫁 VP #ECMO chiefly used for HF/CS (54.4%) and ARF/ARDS (26.6%): hospital outcomes, complications and survival differed according to diagnosis leading to VP ECLS 🔗 bit.ly/4pKMHSS
VP #ECLS: @theelso.bsky.social Registry analysis including 838 patients receiving VP as first support modality, July 2020 - July 2024
🫀🫁 chiefly used for HF/CS or ARF/ARDS
🪦 60-day mortality 49.3%; advanced age, female sex, BMI, CRRT use prior to cannulation predictors of death
🔗 bit.ly/4pKMHSS
January 17, 2026 at 5:28 PM
VP #ECLS: @theelso.bsky.social Registry analysis including 838 patients receiving VP as first support modality, July 2020 - July 2024
🫀🫁 chiefly used for HF/CS or ARF/ARDS
🪦 60-day mortality 49.3%; advanced age, female sex, BMI, CRRT use prior to cannulation predictors of death
🔗 bit.ly/4pKMHSS
January 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Death by neurologic criteria in neonates undergoing #ECMO
🔍 @theelso.bsky.social Registry Study, 2010–2023, including about 15K neonates (≤28 days old, born after 37 weeks gestation) on #ECLS
🪦 DNC rarely diagnosed: 0.5% neonates
⏱️ 84% DNC diagnoses occurred after 24 hours of run
🔓 bit.ly/49zx4sV
Death by neurologic criteria in neonates undergoing #ECMO
🪦 DNC rare: 0.5%, 2% of overall mortality
⚖️ factors associated w greater risk pre-ECMO CA, severe acidosis, cardiac support/central cannulation, hyperoxemia
Optimizing #ECLS management pivotal!
@pedcritcaremed.bsky.social
🔓 bit.ly/49zx4sV
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
SAVECMO study, consensus of international experts on key aspects of cannula-site infections complicating peripheral #ECMO
#FOAMcc #FOAMecmo
🔗 rdcu.be/eZd0g
SAVECMO study, consensus on key aspects of cannula-site infections in peripheral #ECMO:
🔍 Delphi study involving 39 international #ECLS experts
definition
🩺 suspicion & methodology for diagnosis
🧫 bacteriology
💉 treatment & treatment failure
⚠️ preventive measures
#FOAMcc #FOAMecmo
🔗 rdcu.be/eZd0g
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Start 2026 with #ECLS education and/or training?
🎓 Adult ECMO #simulation course on VA & VV ECMO, through hands on learning and troubleshooting scenarios of clinical cases. Two 1 ½ day sessions
📆 April 14-15
📆 April 16-17
📌 Ann Arbor MI
Register at 🎓 bit.ly/ELSOAcademy
Info 📬 ecmotraining@elso.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:06 AM
📖 The membrane lung Chapter 9 of 📘 The Blue Book is focused on this essential component of the #ECMO circuit
🫁role
💨 how gas exchange takes place: oxygenation, CO2 removal & how to improve these
⚖️ selecting appropriate ML
🩸thrombosis
🔍 monitoring
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
🖥️ Coming soon ELSO Tips & Tricks Webinar: tips and tricks for data entry, featuring experts from different centers. This session will be recorded and available for anyone interested after, will be coming this month.
Save the date!
📆 January 21 2026
⏰ 11 AM US Eastern Time
More details (& link) soon!
January 12, 2026 at 7:34 PM
#ECPR powerful intervention, capable of rescuing patients from refractory CA, but effectiveness is critically dependent on (unforgiving) time constraints. Achieving #ECMO flow ideally within 45' of collapse, before irreversible ischemic injury, requires organized/high-performing systems.
Rethinking where & how to deliver ECPR
⏱️ time? central physiologic determinant
🪂 system determines benefit
🩺 in H #ECPR: reliability/constraints
🚑 preH & hybrid ECPR: overcoming geography/time
⚖️ population impact: survival + organ donation
🪖 lessons from special operations forces
🔗 bit.ly/3LzXZLE
January 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
#ECMO discontinuation?
🔍 analysis of @theelso.bsky.social Registry aimed to examine epidemiology of #ECLS discontinuation due to resource limitation, EDRL
🔎 >161K runs, 2013-2023: 0.19% underwent EDRL, 25% of those occurred in children
@asaiojournal.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4syWcXT
#ECMO discontinuation due to resource limitation
🔎 >161K runs: EDRL 0.19%, 25% #PedsICU
🗺️ Latin America & Southwest Asia/Africa high EDRL rate
Resource limitation uncommon indication for decannulation, but increased over time, outpacing rise in #ECLS use
@asaiojournal.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4syWcXT
January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
🎥 #ECMO & critical care nephrology at #ELSO2025
🫘 #AKI, fluid balance, CKRT
🩺 epidemiology of AKI in ECMO
⚙️ mechanics of #CRRT in ECMO
💦 CRRT on ECMO: safety, timing, fluid removal
🫘 kidney outcomes after ECMO
Register
🔗 bit.ly/ELSO2025virtual
If you joined in person
🔗 elso2025.teneventsmedia.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Nitric oxide delivery into the sweep flow of #ECMO systems?
⚖️ legal & regulatory considerations
🌱 environmental considerations
💨 NO delivery systems
🫁 iNO
💨 sNO: technical challenges and solutions
🔗 bit.ly/3Nilw4i
January 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
📢 ELSO & @sccmcriticalcare.bsky.social pre #SCCM2026 congress #ECMO #simulation courses! These immersive programs are designed to strengthen #ECLS knowledge, build clinical confidence, enhance high-performance teamwork.
📌 Chicago, IL
📅 March 20 & 21 (separate, 1️⃣ day courses)
🔗 bit.ly/49nEhL5
January 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
#APELSO2026: Challenging spirit! Save the date for the 8th annual conference of the Asia-Pacific chapter of the ELSO - Extracorporeal Life Support Organization @theelso.bsky.social
📌 Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
📆 June 11-13 2026
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Reposted
📢 Call for abstracts for #EuroELSO2026 extended to January 18! All accepted abstracts will be published in a special issue of Perfusion Journal & presented onsite in Dublin 🇮🇪
🗓️ May 6-9, 2026
PS Applications for young investigator awards 🏅& travel grants ✈️ available

PS online registration is open!
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Rhythm during CPR & ECPR outcome
🔍 ELSO Registry study aimed to evaluate prognostic value of initial rhythm/rhythm at cannulation
🔎 >3.3K adults, 2020-25
Specific survival patterns highlighted, underscoring
need for individualized, rhythm-informed/time-adapted #ECMO decision-making
🔓 bit.ly/49h9vDz
Rhythm during CPR: any impact on #ECPR outcome?
⚡️ survival highest if persistent VF or conversion from non-shockable rhythm to VF, lowest if conversion to or persistent in non-shockable rhythm
⚖️ initial PEA & asystole? lower survival
🫀 asystole at cannulation? worse outcomes
🔓 bit.ly/49h9vDz
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
📖 The blood pump by G Debeuckelaere, MV Antonini @foamecmo.bsky.social & P Roeleveld: Blue Book Chapter 8 is focused on a core component of the #ECMO circuit!
⚙️ types of blood pumps & their use
⚙️ biomechanics of blood pumps
🩸 blood flow rate
📘 Available in our online bookstore!
🛒 bit.ly/ELSObooks
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
#ECPR & organ donation? Cumulative beneficence score remains elusive: personal, regional, ethical, interdisciplinary nuance at play. However, outcome metrics offer grounded framework for program evaluation: to be tracked OD metrics and survival outcomes with increased granularity.
🔗 bit.ly/3LtxLun
#Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation & organ donation?
🥅 goal of #ECPR survival with meaningful neuro recovery: cannulation solely for OD should be avoided
🥅 secondary contribution of #ECMO in cardiac arrest to OD increasingly recognized
@asaiojournal.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/3LtxLun
January 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
🎉 Happy New Year from @theelso.bsky.social The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization! Looking forward to a 2026 full of growth, success & #ECLS teamwork to all members & friends in the #ECMO community!
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Reposted
Frailty was not associated with short or long-term mortality among #ECMO patients: a reflection of eligibility patterns (selection practices + candidacy)? @anzics.bsky.social
Open access #FOAMcc #FOAMecmo
🔓 rdcu.be/eWWRx
Frailty & outcomes after #ECMO
🔍 cohort study across 116 ICUs from the Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿
🔎 > 2K pts included (2018-2024); frailty present in 12.2% patients
🪦 adjusted 1y mortality 41.9% w/o frailty, 42.1% w frailty; results consistent across sensitivity/subgroup analyses
🔓 rdcu.be/eWWRx
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM