More Evidence That We Should be Using Resuscitative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygen Among the “Not Quite Dead Yet?”: The Importance of Signs of Life Before Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Cannulation*

1 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT. 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT. *See also p. 542. Dr. Tonna is supported by a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (K23 HL141596); he disclosed that he is the Chair of the Registry Committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. None of the funding sources were involved in the design or conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis or interpretation of the data, or preparation, review or approval of the article.