Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO): Guidelines for Neonatal Respiratory Failure

This guideline describes prolonged extracorporeal life support (ECLS), applicable to newborn infants with respiratory failure. These guidelines address technology and patient management during ECMO. Equally important issues such as personnel, training, credentialing, resources, follow-up, reporting, and quality assurance are addressed in other ELSO documents or are center-specific.