Position paper on the physiology and nomenclature of dual circulation during venoarterial ECMO in adults

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. [email protected].
• ² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. [email protected].
• ³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. [email protected].
• ⁴ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
• ⁷ Departments of Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics and Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁹ Cardiothoracic ICU, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹⁰ University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Louvain, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• ¹² ECMO Centre Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹³ Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁴ Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Sorbonne University, La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France.
• ¹⁷ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida Shands Children's Hospital, Congenital Heart Center at University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• ¹⁸ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Critical Care Research Group, The Prince Charles Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ²⁰ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.