68: ARREST – The First Randomized ECPR Trial Ever

The ARREST Trial is published!  Demetris Yannopoulos, Jason Bartos and their army of rockstars have done it!  This is the first randomized ECPR trial and it showed tremendous benefit of ECPR compared to traditional therapies.  Zack explores this paper and their concurrent publication of process with Demetris.   Their two Lancet papers are below https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32338-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30376-X/fulltext In the news, Jenelle Badulak and her crew at UW saved a hypothermic mountaineer in Seattle.  Story here. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54959874