Authors
My-Linh Nguyen, Emma Gause, Brianna Mills, Joseph E Tonna, Heidi Alvey, Richard Saczkowski, Brian Grunau, Lance B Becker, David F Gaieski, Scott Youngquist, Kyle Gunnerson, Peter England, Jessica Hamilton, Jenelle Badulak, Samuel P Mandell, Eileen M Bulger, Nicholas J Johnson, Extracorporeal Resuscitation Consortium
Publication date
2020/12/1
Journal
Resuscitation
Volume
157
Pages
225-229
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Introduction
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is an emerging invasive rescue therapy for treatment of refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). We aim to describe the incidence of traumatic and hemorrhagic complications among patients undergoing ECPR for OHCA and examine the association between CPR duration and ECPR-related injuries or bleeding.
Methods
We examined prospectively collected data from the Extracorporeal Resuscitation Outcomes Database (EROD), which includes ECPR-treated OHCAs from participating hospitals (October 2014 to August 2019). The primary outcome was traumatic or hemorrhagic complications, defined any of the following: pneumothorax, pulmonary hemorrhage, major bleeding, cannula site bleeding, gastrointestinal bleeding, thoracotomy, cardiac tamponade, aortic dissection, or vascular injury during hospitalization. The primary exposure …
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