The Need and Approach for Critical Assessment of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Candidacy Decision-making: A Call to Action

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center ICU, and Optimum Care (Ethics) Committee, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: jrubin@mgh.harvard.edu.
• ² Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.