Highlights from the Asia‐Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organization 2021 Conference.

Similarly, ECMO for COVID-19 related ARDS was discussed from the French perspective by Dr. Matthieu Schmidt from Piié Salpetrière Hospital and Dr. Keiki Shimizu the Japanese experience, Dr. Xiaotong Hou the Chinese experience, Dr. Urvi Shukla the Indian experience and Dr. Eva Marwali the Indonesian experience. Dr. Chiao-Feng Cheng from National Taiwan University received the second-place award for his abstract on ECMO in immunocompromised patients with ARDS. The Asia-Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (APELSO) is the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), which had its first meeting in Melbourne, July 2012, hosted by Dr. Vin Pellegrino from the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and Dr. Steve Conrad, then the Chair of the Global ELSO Steering Committee. [Extracted from the article]