title: Is informed consent for extracorporeal life support even possible?
authors: Surgical critical care fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
authors: Allan B
authors: AB
authors: Peetz
authors: Assistant professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and an intensivist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he is co-director of the surgical intensive care units, director of the fellowship in anesthesia-critical care medicine, and co-chair of the hospital ethics committee.
authors: Nicholas
authors: N
authors: Sadovnikoff
authors: Section head of critical care medicine and a professor of anesthesia and critical care at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
authors: Michael F
authors: MF
authors: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000941:ethics*; D006333:Heart Failure; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency