neonates and young children with severe cardiorespiratory failure. Although ECMO has
reduced mortality in these critically ill patients, almost all patients treated with ECMO
develop a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) characterized by a 'cytokine
storm', leukocyte activation, and multisystem organ dysfunction. We used a neonatal porcine
model of ECMO to investigate whether rising plasma concentrations of inflammatory …