Barriers and opportunities related to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada: A report from the first meeting of the Canadian ECPR Research Working Group

CJEM. 2018 Jul;20(4):507-517. doi: 10.1017/cem.2017.429. Epub 2018 May 7.

¹ *Department of Emergency Medicine,Queen's University,Kingston,ON.
² ¶Division of Critical Care,Montreal Children's Hospital,McGill University,Montreal,QC.
³ **Canadian Blood Services,Ottawa,ON.
⁴ ‡‡Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC.
⁵ ***Division of Cardiac Surgery,London Health Sciences Centre,London,ON.
⁶ ‡Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery,Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine.
⁷ §§Division of Nephrology,Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC.
⁸ †Rescu,Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,St. Michael's Hospital,University of Toronto,Toronto,ON.

Abstract

For a French translation of the executive summary, please see the Supplementary Material at DOI: 10.1017/cem.2017.429.

Keywords: cardiac arrest; extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.