Fig. 1From: ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic: When is it justified?Conditions for ECMO during pandemic situations. Everything starts with providing best conventional intensive care measures prior to ECMO. Careful filtering of patients, which can be facilitated with AI and machine learning support is critical to achieve good outcomes. Resource allocation can preserve the quality of care within the unit. And finally, experience needs to be translated to evidence and contributing to research is the way to make ECMO countBack to article page