Expanded extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridge to heart and lung transplant candidate selection does not impact outcomes compared to traditional candidate selection criteria.

While this did not reach statistical significance possibly due to small sample size, patients who had >1 reason for deviation from traditional selection criteria appeared to be less likely to receive a transplant (OR: 0.46, CI: 0.12–1.78, P=0.26), had higher odds of being delisted or dying while on waitlist (OR: 2.65, CI: 0.64–10.97, P=0.17), and had higher odds of receiving renal replacement therapy (OR: 3.61, CI: 0.82–15.90, P=0.08).

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