“Even when saving ECMO for the youngest, healthiest and sickest patients, we could only provide it to a fraction of patients who qualified for it,” Gannon said. “I hope these data encourage hospitals and federal authorities to invest in the capacity to provide ECMO to more patients.”
This is the classic mafia tactics. Cheat the system with no treatment and then propose the most useless but most expensive solution.
I would not buy one single extra ECMO as this is a waste of money.