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Conflict of interest
None of the authors report conflicts of interest . PA and MO are members of the ELSO Executive Committee . PR
Funding There was no funding specific to this study .
Data availability All available data are incorporated into the article .
Ethics
This material is the authors ’ own original work , that has not been previously published elsewhere . The paper reflects the authors ’ own analysis of data in a truthful and complete manner .
Authors ’ contributions
The content experts that built the platform and conceived the project : J Sleasman , M Ogino , C Stead , and P Rycus , U Hijawi , A Alsalemi , M Rabie , and M Noorizadeh . The content experts that conceived the descriptive manuscript : P Alexander , K Ryan , J Sleasman . J Sleasman conceived first draft , to which all editors contributed . The data collection : P Alexander , J Haft , D Abrams , J Sleasman , C Stead , P Rycus ,
A Stead , C Cooley , C Donnelly . Graphic design and edited manuscript : A Fox .
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Cite this article as : Sleasman JR , Hijawi U , Alsalemi A , Rabie M , Noorizadeh M , Stead A , Cooley C , Donnelly C , Haft JW , Abrams D , Stead C , Ryan KR , Rycus P , Fox AD , Ogino MT & Alexander PMA . Foundations of a life support equipment exchange platform . J Extra Corpor Technol 2023 , 55 , 39 – 43