Hospital getting ECMO

[Icualltheway]

I work at a hospital in metro-Atlanta that will be starting an ECMO program. It will be completely new to the hospital and the pump will be ran by the nurses. The pt will be a 2 to 1. It will be only the nurses in our unit trained to run the pumps and if need be we will float to other units to run a pt and if there is a demand for it we will have to start taking call. Anyway, my question to the nurses out there that already run ECMO is if there is a pay difference when you run ECMO? I've heard of other nurses getting a different pay when they have these pts and I was wondering if this is common occurrence.

[Icualltheway]

Thanks for the responses. One more question to the people that said they do get a diff, do y'all also get a diff for crrt, balloon pump, lead, or anything else?

[MYSTICOOKIEBEAR]

2:1?! Lucky dogs! Even though my hospital is a top 10 in the country, they are 1:1, we don't get differential pay , and our unit (Cardiac/Transplant) is the only one that can take them. The worst was when I had a centrally cannulated ECMO, with an open chest, Tandem for a rock hard right heart, Balloon Pump, Swanned, Nitric, CVVH, more than maxed on pressors, TPN/Lipids and la piece de resistance iso 1.5 through a DHT