The virus associated community-acquired pneumonia during seasonal influenza has a variety of appearances, and the clinical picture can range from asymptomatic infection to severe pneumonia with respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, multi-organ failure. Nowadays modern pulmonary support technologies are used to treat them, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in particular. The article presents a clinical case of severe virus-associated bacterial pneumonia of a progressive course with severe respiratory failure (III) and developed pulmonary edema. The method of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was used in the treatment, as there was a steady negative dynamic against the background of intensive therapy. The treatment algorithm from the patient's first call to a pulmonologist and transfer to an intensive care unit using extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation is presented in the clinical case. © 2020 Interregional public organization Association of infectious disease specialists of Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region (IPO AIDSSPbR). All rights reserved.