A Second Chance for Survival: Clinical Trial Evidence, Eligibility, and Barriers to Implementation of ECPR for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine and the Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences, St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Electronic address: Brian.Grunau@ubc.ca.
• ² Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Cardiac Surgery, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiovascular Medicine, First Medical School, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiology and Center for Resuscitation Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• ⁶ SAMU de Paris-DAR Necker University Hospital-Assistance Public Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiac Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸ Hôspital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.