Generating Evidence in ECMO Ventilation Strategies

The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to test if ICU level ventilator protocols are appropriate interventions to study differences in ventilator strategies for patients with acute respiratory failure supported by VV-ECMO. The main questions it aims to answer are:will clinicians closely follow different ICU ventilator protocolswill different ICU ventilator protocols change the way that patients are treated.Participants will be assigned to one of two ventilator protocols based on the month that they are first started on ECMO. Researchers will compare standard lung-protective ventilation to ultra-lung protective ventilation protocols to see how this changes how the ventilator is set for patients.

Inclusion Criteria:All patients being treated with ECMO in the Duke University Hospital Medical ICU will be eligibleExclusion Criteria:There are no exclusion criteria