Table 2.

Trial inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Age≥18 years	VA-ECMO after cardiac surgery for heart or lung–heart transplantation or ventricular assist device implantation
Intubated patients with cardiogenic shock treated with VA-ECMO	VA-ECMO for acute poisoning with cardiotoxic drugs
Patients affiliated or beneficiaries of a social security scheme	Pregnancy
	Uncontrolled bleeding (bleeding despite medical intervention (surgery or drugs)
	Implantation of VA-ECMO under cardiac massage with a duration of cardiac massage of ≥45 min
	Out-of-hospital refractory cardiac arrest
	Participation in another interventional research involving therapeutic modifications
	Cerebral deficit with fixed dilated pupils
	Patient moribund on the day of randomisation
	Irreversible neurological pathology
	Minor patients
	Patients under tutelage

VA-ECMO, venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.