Bypass vs. Ecmo in Lung Transplantation (BELT)

Exclusion criteria

• ✕. Patients undergoing concomitant cardiac operations with indication for obligate use of cardiopulmonary bypass
• ✕. Patient with specific anatomy that require full cardiac decompression such as severe pulmonary hypertension or large heart that are shifted severely into the left chest
• ✕. Patients with high likelihood of significant pleural bleeding that will require returning the blood back into the cardiotomy reservoir
• ✕. Patients bridged to transplant with ECMO
• ✕. Cystic fibrosis/bronchiectasis/resistant infection patients where surgeon will need to remove both lungs prior to implantation
• ✕. Patients who the surgeon feels would be better served with CPB rather than ECMO- These patients will be entered into a registry and followed.