Table 1.
Characteristics of the patients who are alive the discharge*
| Total | Dead (n=31) |
Alive at Discharge (n=17) |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (y) | 35.03±16.61 | 40.21±15.53 | 25.54±14.53 | 0.002 |
| Male | 33 (68.8) | 21 (67.7) | 12 (70.6) | 0.999 |
| Duration of ECMO (hr) | 29 (22-72) | 48 (24-72) | 24 (18.5-36) | 0.044 |
| Cause of ECMO | 0.081 | |||
| AIDS | 1 (2.1) | 1 (3.2) | 0 | |
| H1N1 influenza | 2 (4.2) | 1 (3.2) | 1 (5.9) | |
| Post cardiotomy | 3 (6.3) | 3 (9.7) | 0 | |
| Heart transplantation | 3 (6.3) | 2 (6.5) | 1 (5.9) | |
| Alveolar proteinosis | 4 (8.3) | 0 | 4 (23.5) | |
| Lung transplantation | 24 (50.0) | 15 (48.4) | 9 (52.9) | |
| Pulmonary embolectomy | 1 (2.1) | 1 (3.2) | 0 | |
| Pulmonary endarterectomy | 3 (6.3) | 2 (6.5) | 1 (5.9) | |
| ARDS | 6 (12.5) | 6 (19.4) | 0 | |
| Carinal tumor | 1 (2.1) | 0 | 1 (5.9) | |
| Failed organs | 0.204 | |||
| Heart failure | 6 (12.5) | 4 (12.9) | 2 (11.8) | |
| Lung failure | 37 (77.1) | 22 (71.0) | 15 (88.2) | |
| Sepsis | 5 (10.4) | 5 (16.1) | 0 |
The significance of the differences between the groups was assessed with a t-test for age, a Mann–Whitney test for the duration of ECMO, and a Fisher exact test for all the other variables.
ECMO, Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; AIDS, Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; ARDS, Adult respiratory distress syndrome
*
Data are presented as mean±SD for age, as median (25–75%) for the duration of ECMO, and as number (%) for all the other variables.