🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Is Withholding ECMO in CAKUT Still Ethically Justified?
The Incubator Channel · 30 Oct 2026 · 16 min
Summary
A conversation recorded at the CHNC Symposium with Dallas neonatologists discussing whether ECMO should be offered to babies with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) complicated by pulmonary hypoplasia and pulmonary hypertension. They present their multicentre survey showing few centres have guidelines and wide variation in practice, and discuss prenatal multidisciplinary planning, rapid whole genome sequencing and plans for Delphi consensus guidelines.
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