Healthcare professionals’ views on training, standards, and resources for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a cross-sectional survey

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Aim To assess health care professionals' knowledge and opinions regarding extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) use, training, standards, and resource availability. MethodsThis cross-sectional study employed an online self-administered survey to evaluate health care professionals' knowledge and opinions concerning ECMO procedures.The survey consisted of multiple-choice and openended questions inquiring about demographics, ECMO practices, training and certification experiences, ECMO use during the COVID-19 pandemic, and obstacles to ECMO implementation. ResultsThe study enrolled 89 health care professionals from 12 countries.The respondents were most frequently from Kazakhstan (67.4%),Turkey (5.6%), Croatia (5.6%), and Ukraine (5.6%).Notably, 61.8% of respondents supported ECMO procedures performed by certified specialists.The respondents believed that the main ECMO indications were respiratory failure (83.1%), cardiopulmonary failure (69.6%), heart and lung transplantation (64.1%), and cardiogenic shock (58.4%).Major obstacles to ECMO implementation were reported to be high costs (53.9%), inadequately qualified staff (52.8% for physicians, 41.6% for nurses), and restricted availability of ECMO devices (42.7%). ConclusionThe findings emphasize the need for standardized training, wider availability of ECMO standards, and efforts to address resource-related barriers to ECMO access.Our results primarily reflect practices in Kazakhstan and should be interpreted in light of the study's restricted geographical coverage.

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