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- EIN 46-3994587
- (734) 998-6601
- 3001 Miller Rd Ann Arbor MI 48103-2122 USA
- www.elso.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health
Mission: To promote public benefit from better patient outcomes through collaborative educational and research efforts including: maintenance of a registry of information and data from and about centers active in extracorporeal life support and their patients for use by scientists and clinicians in areas related to extracorporeal life support, and provision of educational and training programs and information about extracorporeal life support for medical and lay communities.
Programs: Elso holds an annual meeting which takes place in september at various venues throughout the united states. Participants in the annual meeting pursue new knowledge through discussion and presentations that directly impact the management and care of patients. Didactic presentations, as well as research and case presentations are discussed to enhance the audience's knowledge in the areas of respiratory and/or cardiovascular failure in adults and children. Elso runs specialized training courses 2-3 times a year at various locations throughout the united states. The intensive four day course is designed for physicians and specialists caring for patients with severe acute respiratory and cardiac failure who may be candidates for extracorporeal respiratory support. Elso provides guidelines that are open to the public and are available on elso's website. The guidelines committee meets a few times a year both nationally and internationally. Guidelines are used by new and existing elso centers to design and maintain their ecmo programs.
the organization maintains 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 member centers, as well as for the broader medical and lay communities.