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Article History

Received: 3 November 2025

Accepted: 8 December 2025

First Online: 27 December 2025

Declarations

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: This study was approved by the Alfred Hospital Ethics Committee (Reference 549/25) and the ANZICS Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation Management Committee.

: Consent for publication was waived in view of the deidentified nature of the data.

: RRL receives research support from the Clinician Scientist Development Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He serves as a fellow of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO) Scientific Oversight Committee, and is an editorial board member of Critical Care. AS serves as an associate editor for Critical Care and Resuscitation and BMC Emergency Medicine, and is the Intensive Care Medicine subspecialty editor for Internal Medicine Journal. DP is the chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation, member of the state-wide governance committee for the Victorian ECMO Service and serves as an associate editor for Critical Care and Resuscitation journal and Critical Care Science journal. KR is the chair of the ELSO Publications Committee, and serves as a member and the past-chair of the ELSO Scientific Oversight Committee. KSh serves on the Scientific Committee and Network Committee of the International ECMO Network (ECMONet). He reports receiving lecture honoraria outside of the submitted work from Getinge and Abiomed. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.