Acute respiratory distress syndrome in the cardiothoracic patient: State of the art and use of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenationCentral Message

• Hannah Copeland, MD,
• Deborah Levine, MD,
• John Morton, CCP,
• J.W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH

Affiliations

Hannah Copeland, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and ECMO, Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind; Indiana University School of Medicine Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, Ind; Address for reprints: Hannah Copeland, MD, Indiana University–Fort Wayne School of Medicine, 7910 W Jefferson Blvd, Suite 102, Fort Wayne, IN 46804.

Deborah Levine, MD

Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Lung Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex

John Morton, CCP

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Heart Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and ECMO, Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind

J.W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa