Table 3.

Hospital survival based on location of ECMO initiation in either operation room (OR) because of failure to wean from bypass or in the intensive care unit (ICU) due to low cardiac output syndrome or hypoxia (7, 26–30).

			Hospital survival (%)
	Population	Overall survival	OR	ICU	Statistical significance
Jaggers et al. (26)	N = 35 (median age 19 days)	60	60	60	NS
Kolovos et al. (27)	N = 74 (median age 17 days)	50	64	41	P = 0.06
Chaturvedi et al. (28)	N = 81 children (median age 2.4 months)	49	64	29	P = 0.003
Sasaki et al. (7)	N = 36 (median age 64 days)	47	43	60	NS
Casadonte et al. (13)	N = 90 (age 6–912 days)	73	77	62	NS
Khorsandi et al. (30)	N = 66 Age <16 years	44	47	38	NS