Time to Throw Out the Elephant in the Room: Proper Use of S v O 2 in Extracorporeal Life Support

Affiliations

• ¹ ECMO Centre Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ² Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ³ Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute, Specialty Critical Care and Acute Circulatory Support Service, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• ⁴ ECLS Centrum, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, and Cardiology Department, Heart & Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ Cardiovascular Research Institute (CARIM), Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of SC AR2-Anesthesia and Cardiothoracic ICU, Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Critical Care Research Group, Prince Charles Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.