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Complication events stratified by type of ECMO.
| ECMO episodes by type (total = 194) | Complication events (total = 32) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low clinical significance (n = 15) | Moderate clinical significance (n = 10) | High clinical significance (n = 7) | Total complications by type of ECMO | |
| V–V (N = 93) | 3 | 3 | – | 6/93 (6.5%) |
| V-AV (N = 3) | 1 | – | – | 1/3 (33.3%) |
| V-A (non ECMO-CPR) (N = 33) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6/33 (18.2%) |
| V-A (ECMO-CPR) (N = 36) |
10 | 2 | 6 | 18/36 (50%) |
| Circuit reconfiguration (N = 25) | – | 1 | – | 1/25 (4%) |
| Bypass (N = 4) | – | – | – | – |
