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How Should ECMO Initiation and Withdrawal Decisions Be Shared?
Carolina Jaramillo, Nicholas Braus1
1A pulmonologist and critical care physician at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is also a member of the hospital clinical ethics committee.
Abstract:
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a new technology used to rescue patients with severe circulatory or respiratory failure and help bridge them to recovery or to definitive therapies like device implantation or organ transplantation. The increasing availability and success of ECMO has generated numerous ethical questions about its use and potential misuse. This commentary on a case of a patient who is no longer a candidate for transplant but wishes to continue ECMO identifies strategies clinicians can use to reconcile competing responsibilities.
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