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cord-308813-4ah3cdph	Bartlett, Robert H.	Initial ELSO Guidance Document: ECMO for COVID-19 Patients with Severe Cardiopulmonary Failure	2020-04-01		.txt	text/plain	1681	103	47	title: Initial ELSO Guidance Document: ECMO for COVID-19 Patients with Severe Cardiopulmonary Failure The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) and all of the ELSO worldwide chapters have prepared this document to describe when and how to use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in COVID-19 patients during this pandemic. 4 Due to the intensive hospital resource utilization, substantial staff training, and multidisciplinary needs associated with starting an ECMO program, ELSO recommends against starting new ECMO centers for the sole purpose of treating patients with COVID-19. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation indications, access, and management are described in the ELSO Guidance for Adult Respiratory and Cardiac failure on the ELSO web site (https:// elso.org). For adult respiratory failure, the recently published EOLIA trial contains three indications that define severe ARDS where ECMO may be useful. For ELSO member centers, when you use ECMO for COVID-19, please enter your patient in the Registry at the time they go on (and later when discharged).	./cache/cord-308813-4ah3cdph.txt	./txt/cord-308813-4ah3cdph.txt