Extracorporeal Lung Support for H1N1: Working Group Recommendations Project Alberta, 2009

A working group was put together in the province of Alberta, to..."To review the technology, operational intricacies, clinical indications, efficacy, and cost of providing extracorporeal lung support (ECLS), via both pumped (ECMO) and pumpless modalities, in adult critically ill patients dying of lung failure in the setting of H1N1 disease. To make recommendations on the advisability of proceeding with the use of ECLS in patients suspected or proven of having H1N1 Influenza admitted with respiratory failure to any Alberta Intensive Care Unit" (Taken from the ECLS H1N1 Alberta Working Group Recommendations Project, 2009)

A copy has been shared with me, and I thought it may be advantageous to have on this site in the event there are any future pandemics we may be able to follow this model here in Ontario.