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British societies guideline on ECMO Emergencies

These guidelines brought together all UK ECMO centres and eight national societies to focus on the recognition of cardiac arrest, team prioritisation, and early ECMO troubleshooting for key life-saving interventions.

Milestone: Over 1000 staff trained!

MLS Training Celebrates Milestone: 1,000 Clinicians Trained in Life-Saving Mechanical Support Skills

Phoenix ECPR Study Published

This study shows that it is possible to significantly improve outcomes in ECPR in a single centre by introducing into standard practice, a high-quality bundle of care.

Health Service Journal Awards 2024

MLS highly commended for national Patient Safety Award

FICM Future Intensivists

The first UK conference for intensivists in training held at the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

UK ECPR Summit 2024

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EuroELSO Cannulation Cup

The MLS team organised the inaugural EuroELSO Cannulation Cup 2024.

British societies guideline on LVAD Emergencies

British guideline developed and endorsed by all UK transplant centres + 8 national societies published in Intensive Care Medicine Journal

ACTTI

Launch of Association of Cardiothoracic Transplant Intensivists - a UK wide collaboration with all adult cardiothoracic centres to improve education and standardise care

International MLS

The MLS team have been spreading our learning across borders over the last months in Wales, Canada, Hungary and Italy

Public Consultation for UK LVAD Emergency Guidelines

The Joint British Societies and Transplant Centres LVAD Working Group present the draft UK guideline on management of emergencies in implantable LVAD recipients for use in advanced heart failure centres for public consultation.

Double Win at HSJ Patient Safety Awards

The MLS team won Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year & Patient Safety Education & Training Awards at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023

Publication of Impella algorithm in British Journal of Cardiology

We have published our emergency Impella algorithm and supporting evidence in the British Journal of Cardiology.

E-CPR Trolley in Our NHS at 75 Photography Competition

A shortlist of 75 NHS staff and volunteers has been announced in a photography competition to mark 75 years of the health service, with the E-CPR Trolley featuring in the Innovation category.

UK ECPR Summit 2023

The UK's first ECPR summit was held on 19 June 2023 at the Royal Society of Medicine

ACTACC Congress, Cambridge

The MLS team was at the Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care UK annual scientific meeting in Cambridge.

BCS/HRUK Minneapolis Fellowship

Thanks a British Cardiovascular Society and Heart Research UK Fellowship the MLS team travelled to the Centre of Resuscitation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

EuroELSO Lisbon 2023

The MLS team was back again at the EuroELSO educational corner this year in Lisbon.

Publication of ECMO Algorithm in Perfusion

We have published our advanced life support algorithm for all patients on VV or VA ECMO in Perfusion.

MLS emergency algorithms presented at Acute CardioVascular Care Congress 2023

Our three algorithms for resuscitation of patients with LVAD, ECMO and Impella...