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Welcome to ELSO

The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) is an international non-profit consortium of health care institutions who are dedicated to the development and evaluation of novel therapies for support of failing organ systems. Crucial is the promotion of a broad multidisciplinary collaboration. The primary mission of the Organization is to maintain a registry of, at least, use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in active ELSO centers. As appropriate, registries of other novel forms of organ system support are within the purview of ELSO. Registry data is to be used to support clinical research, support regulatory agencies, and support individual ELSO centers. ELSO provides educational programs for active centers as well as for the broader medical and lay communities.

OUR VISION

Notice:

Abstracts for the Scottsdale September meeting has been extended to is August 1, 2018.
http://www.cvent.com/d/dtqvlh

2018 July ELSO Reports available

The July 2018 ELSO reports can be downloaded from the Registry-Statistics tab after logging into the website. The data entry system is now open.

ELSO June 2018 Newsletter now available!
https://www.elso.org/Resources/Newsletters.aspx

Registration is now open for August Philadelphia Adult ECMO Course and November Adult ECMO Course in Atlanta!
https://www.elso.org/Events/ELSOCoursesWorkshops.aspx

ELSO Center Renewal Information.All center registration is now online through our website. For our existing centers up to January 2018 all memberships were on calendar year and will expire December 31, 2018. Normally dues will be required prior to your center membership expiration. This year only the payments were extended past the expiration of your memberships which was December 31, 2017 because of the new renewal system. Several emails were sent out and many of you have renewed for 2018. On May 15th, 2018 if you have not paid your 2018 membership dues your center will become inactive and you will only be allowed to renew after logging into our website. You will not be able to access the data entry system, discussion board, etc. At this point there will be a late fee associated with the renewal as well. Later this year as your 2018 membership nears renewal you will get multiple emails reminding you to renew prior to December 31, 2018. If you have recently joined ELSO your membership will expire one year after you joined and emails will be timed appropriately.

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Meetings

29th Annual ELSO Conference

09/13/2018 - 09/16/2018
Location: The Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona
Kennethia Banks-Borden or Peter Rycus 7347-998-6600 kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 05/15/2017
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Adult ECMO for respiratory failure and septic shock

10/01/2018 - 10/04/2018
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Björn Frenckner +46 70 722 61 15 bjorn.frenckner@sll.se
Posted Date: 05/02/2018
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ELSO LA CONFERENCE

11/10/2018 - 11/12/2018
Location: Santiago Chile
Andrea Fernandez Andrea@ecls.cl
Posted Date: 01/16/2018
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SEECMO 2019

05/03/2019 - 05/05/2019
Location: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital St. Petersburg, FL
Joy Perkins 727-767-3587 jperki12@jhmi.edu
Posted Date: 07/19/2018

30th Annual ELSO Conference

09/12/2019 - 09/15/2019
Location: Austin, Texas
Kennethia Banks-Borden or Peter Rycus 734-998-6600 kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 04/04/2018

31st Annual ELSO Conference

09/23/2020 - 09/26/2020
Location: Hilton Waikoloa Village - Big Island of Hawai'i
Kennethia Banks-Borden or Peter Rycus 734-995-6600 kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 04/04/2018

ELSO Courses/Workshops

ELSO / STS ECMO Symposium

07/13/2018 - 07/15/2018
Location: Tampa, FL
Michelle Taylor 312-202-5864 mtaylor@sts.org
Posted Date: 12/14/2017
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Extracorporeal Life Support in Adult Critical Care

08/22/2018 - 08/25/2018
Location: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Kennethia Banks-Borden 734-998-6600 kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 04/30/2018
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ELSO Cannulation Workshop

09/06/2018 - 09/08/2018
Location: Atlanta, GA
Kennethia Banks-Borden 734-998-6600 kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 04/19/2018
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Extracorporeal Life Support in Adult Critical Care

11/07/2018 - 11/10/2018
Location: Emory Conference Center, Atlanta GA
Kennethia Banks-Borden 734-998-6600 Kbanksborden@elso.org
Posted Date: 04/30/2018
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