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Interrogation of the National Inpatient Sample over the 8-year observation period revealed 77,749 hospital encounters in which massive PE was identified. In 219 of these encounters (0.28%), ECMO was utilized, with an upward trend between 2005 and 2013 (p = 0.015).
ECMO, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation; PE, pulmonary embolism.
