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Most common organisms identified on culture prior to initiation of ECLS for respiratory and cardiac failure. Based on a total of 17,374 ECLS runs for respiratory failure and a total of 18,514 total ECLS runs for cardiac failure from January 2012 through July 2019. Event rate represents the number of positive cultures for a given organism divided by the total number of ECLS runs. ECLS extracorporeal life support
