TY - JOUR AU - Makdisi, Tony AU - Makdisi, George PY - 2017 TI - Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation support: ethical dilemmas JF - Annals of Translational Medicine; Vol 5, No 5 (March 15, 2017): Annals of Translational Medicine Y2 - 2017 KW - N2 - The vast expansion of patients treated with of extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) emerge novel ethical questions about the use of this new technology. In regard the indications, duration of support and timing of withdrawal of support, these questions sometimes create disagreement among surrogates, between health care team and surrogates, and even disagreement among health care team, these disagreements occurs because of the extreme emergency of support initiation, the ambiguity of the outcome as well as lack of clarity on the intended treatment direction, whether it is ineffective, bridge to recovery or bridge to lifetime mechanical support or transplant. In this article we discuss these questions through patients’ scenarios. UR - https://atm.amegroups.org/article/view/13348