Importance The substantial growth over the last decade in the use of extracorporeal life
support for adults with acute respiratory failure reveals an enthusiasm for the technology not …

Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) has become increasingly popular as a salvage strategy
for critically ill adults. Major advances in technology and the severe acute respiratory …

The influenza H1N1 epidemics in 2009 led a substantial number of people to develop
severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and refractory hypoxemia. In these patients …

The University of Michigan experience with extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in 1000
consecutive patients between 1980 and 1998 is the largest series at one institution in the …

Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is an artificial means of maintaining adequate
oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination to enable injured lungs to recover from …

Evolution of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) technology has added a new dimension to
the intensive care management of acute cardiac and/or respiratory failure in adult patients …

Objective The authors retrospectively reviewed their experience with extracorporeal life
support (ECLS) in 100 adult patients with severe respiratory failure (ARF) to define …

This is a review of the University of Michigan experience with extracorporeal life support
(ECLS) also known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Two thousand …

Background Severe acute respiratory failure in adults causes high mortality despite
improvements in ventilation techniques and other treatments (eg, steroids, prone …

Lung transplantation (LTx) is effective life-saving therapy for patients with end-stage lung
disease. 1 However, patients who are otherwise excellent candidates for LTx often die on …