Table 3.
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Outcomes
Patient | Duration of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (d)a |
Method of Insertion |
Access | Cannula Size |
Conversion to Venoarterial |
Circuit Exchange | Bleeding Complications | Survival | Cause of Death |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | Percutaneous | IJ | 16F | No | No | Grade IV intraventricular hemorrhage | Dead | Brain herniation |
2 | 5 | Cutdown | IJ | 13F | No | No | DIC | Alive | |
3 | 23 | Percutaneous | IJ | 19F | Yes | Yes | Pulmonary hemorrhage requiring operation | Dead | Hypoxic respiratory failure |
4 | 7 | Cutdown | IJ | 13F | No | Yes | None | Dead | Hypoxic respiratory failure |
5 | 22 | Percutaneous | IJ | 16F | Yes | Yes | Pulmonary hemorrhage; ischemic stroke | Alive | |
6 | 19 | Percutaneous | IJ | 19F | No | No | DIC | Dead | Hypoxic respiratory failure |
7 | 38 | Cutdown | IJ | 13F | Yes | Yes | Coagulopathy | Dead | Multisystem organ failure |
8 | 9 | Percutaneous | IJ | 23F | No | No | None | Alive | |
9 | 8 | Percutaneous | IJ | 31F | No | No | None | Alive | |
10 | 22 | Percutaneous | IJ | 31F | No | No | None | Dead | Multisystem organ failure |
11 | 9 | Cutdown | IJ | 13F | No | Yes | None | Alive |
IJ = internal jugular, DIC = disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Including venoarterial run if conversion required.