Resuscitative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for in hospital cardiac arrest: A Canadian observational experience

Functional outcomes after resuscitative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiac arrest: The patients speak for themselves

“…This study may have been particularly susceptible to selection bias because of its relatively extensive list of inclusion and exclusion criteria and the incorporation into selection of physician judgment surrounding overall comorbidities and life expectancy. Of note, the mean age of patients in this study (47.6 AE 16 years) was somewhat lower than in recent reports, 9,12,13 and younger age is a known predictor of favorable outcome in this population. 14 As Anselmi and colleagues 8 imply, success across centers will vary according to case selection and program organization.…”

Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Refractory Cardiogenic Shock

“…20 More than half of the patients were weaned off ECMO support. Neurologically favorable 30-day survival was seen in 47% of patients.…”

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation postcardiotomy: “With great power comes great responsibility”

“…4 Many of these patients will never return home because of the disability of postintensive care syndrome associated with prolonged intensive care unit care. 4 With respect to patients who have received VA-ECMO, previous observational studies have provided data on traditional short-term survival outcomes, [5][6][7] but at present there is still a paucity of information on these important long-term health-related quality of life outcomes. It is clear that our future outcome trials also must focus on health-related quality of life, perhaps as the primary end point, rather than mortality.…”