What’s new in neonatal and pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in 2022–2023? Insights from the EuroELSO congress 2023

What’s new?

“…Dr Matteo Di Nardo, a pediatric intensivist at Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome, summarizes the latest research and consensus opinion on neonatal and pediatric ECLS (e.g., VV-ECMO v. VA-ECMO) based on ELSO Registry data for various disease states and importantly, reviews anticoagulation management in this patient population. 11 Professor Matthieu Schmidt, a medical intensivist at Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, provides a condensed overview 12 of the latest research investigations for ECMO for adults in respiratory failure, cardiogenic shock, and refractory cardiac arrest. Finally, and as alluded to above, Collins, Barrett and coworkers in the Department of Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, have compiled an extensive state-of-the-art treatise 13 on the best ways to assess and individualize venovenous ECMO patient management.…”