How to Dilate ECMO Canulas

Your goal at this stage is not to immediately progress into dilating up to ECMO canula. It's to get some kind of placeholder devices into these vessels. And then the reason we still have this transition, and this is inside baseball-type stuff, is when I'm first accessing these vessels, I use very floppy wires. You know, if you run a dilator up smoothly to the hilt over your floppy wire, that you're probably good to go. Then you can transition out to the super stiff wires.