Wednesday · 12:00 ET Brief
Every Wednesday at noon: start at the circuit and work back to the evidence.
Extracorporeal support is the most resource-intensive care in the hospital and the least forgiving of guesswork. Every Wednesday at 12:00 ET, ICCN publishes a focused brief on VV and VA ECMO, ECPR, temporary mechanical circulatory support, continuous renal replacement, and the extracorporeal therapies that sit at the edge of the evidence.
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Wednesday 12:00 ET · ECMO & Extracorporeal Support
October 21, 2026
A Paris cohort asks what happens when adults leave venovenous ECMO with acceptable gas exchange but injurious lung mechanics on the sweep-off trial.
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Wednesday 12:00 ET · ECMO & Extracorporeal Support
October 14, 2026
WEANILEVO gave levosimendan to VA-ECMO patients ready to wean. Weaning failure did not move, kidney injury was more common, and mortality remains unsettled.
Read on Substack →A Note from the Founder
Perfusionists, ECMO specialists, nurses, and nephrology colleagues run these circuits every hour of every day. This track reads the extracorporeal literature from their seat — practical, circuit-first, and honest about what the trials do and do not show.
— Javier Amador-Castaneda, BHS, RRT, FCCM, PNAP
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