Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: How to Triage the Patients?

Objectives: In intractable cardiogenic shock, Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) has become a powerful treatment of last resort and ECLS networks have been established. Continuing to push the limits, Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) is increasingly implemented but no guidelines on how to reliably triage the patients in this extreme setting exist.