Membre de la promotion 1993 de l'Universite McGill, le Dr Beth Gamulka s' est merite le
deuxieme prix au concours Lo-gie de dissertation de 1993 du JAMC, auquel sont …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a form of life support for cardiac and/or
pulmonary failure with unique ethical challenges compared to other forms of life support …

Three years ago we noted that the literature on physicians' refusal to provide requested
treatment was sparse1. Since that time the issue has fueled an intense, two-pronged debate …

Objectives: To characterize physicians' practices and attitudes toward the initiation,
limitation, and withdrawal of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can serve as a bridge to recovery in cases
of acute reversible illness, a bridge to transplantation in circumstances of irreversible cardiac …

Financial considerations, in concert with clinical effec tiveness, are of increasing importance
in the assessment of technological innovations. One such innovation, ex tracorporeal …

Background Extracorporeal life support has become accepted as a rescue therapy for
cardiopulmonary shock, and there have been over 100,000 extracorporeal membrane …

During the past decade, the practice of critical care medicine passed through a major ethical
crossroads-the intersection of patient's rights and physician'sobligations related to …

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the most common form of extracorporeal
life support (ECLS) technology, is an increasingly common way of providing life support to …

Rationale: The clinical ethics literature on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
has been focused primarily on identifying hypothetical ethical dilemmas that may arise with …