Table 3.
online: Complications on ECMO (unadjusted)
| Late Preterm | Early Term | Full Term | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 2135 | n = 3119 | n = 9274 | |||||
| % | (n) | % | (n) | % | (n) | p | |
| Hemorrhagic | 17.3 | 369 | 19.7 | 614 | 19.5 | 1805 | 0.05 |
| Mechanical | 39.3 | 840 | 38.6 | 1205 | 35.5 | 3290 | 0.0002 |
| Metabolic | 24.6 | 526 | 21.6 | 675 | 15.4 | 1426 | < .0001 |
| Neurological | 33.5 | 715 | 22.0 | 687 | 17.7 | 1643 | < .0001 |
| IVH | 12.3 | 263 | 7.6 | 237 | 3.6 | 337 | < .0001 |
| Other | 24.0 | 512 | 16.1 | 503 | 15.0 | 1395 | < .0001 |
| Renal | 25.3 | 541 | 21.1 | 659 | 17.0 | 1573 | < .0001 |
| Hemofiltration/dialysis | 19.3 | 412 | 15.5 | 484 | 12.1 | 1125 | < .0001 |
| Infection | 6.9 | 148 | 6.6 | 207 | 5.5 | 511 | 0.009 |
| Culture proven infection | 6.5 | 139 | 6.0 | 187 | 5.1 | 476 | 0.02 |
| Major cardiovascular | 32.9 | 702 | 34.6 | 1079 | 31.9 | 2956 | 0.02 |
| PDA | 5.0 | 107 | 5.5 | 171 | 4.3 | 400 | 0.02 |
| Other | 30.7 | 655 | 32.1 | 1001 | 29.9 | 2777 | 0.07 |
| Pulmonary hemorrhage | 4.1 | 87 | 3.4 | 107 | 3.3 | 301 | 0.16 |
| Pneumothorax | 5.0 | 107 | 5.2 | 163 | 5.4 | 500 | 0.76 |