Table 1.

Patients’ characteristics at admission, during ICU stay and at follow-up

	Case 1	Case 2	Case 3	Case 4	Case 5	Case6
Age, years	35	48	56	62	43	62
Sex	Male	Male	Male	Male	Male	Male
Premorbid condition	Cocaine Tobacco	Type II diabetes mellitus	Tobacco Coronary heart disease	Tobacco Ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy	None	Ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
Reason for VA-ECMO	Refractory cardiac arrest (cocaine-induced vasospasm)	Septic cardiomyopathy	Ischemic cardiogenic shock	Primary heart graft dysfunction	Ischemic cardiogenic shock	Cardiogenic shock
Pre-ECMO SAPS II score	64	86	84	52	85	34
Pre-ECMO SOFA score	14	17	16	16	9	10
Duration of VA-ECMO support, days	4	29	2	47	4	13
Survival to hospital discharge	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
ICU length of stay (days)	90	74	6	51	9	30
Organ support during ICU stay
Renal replacement therapy	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Mechanical ventilation duration (days)	78	51	3	51	8	1
ECMO cannulation site	Femoral	Femoral	Femoral	Femoral	Femoral	Femoral
ECMO flow rate at initiation (L/min)	4.23	3.9	4	3.8	3.1	4.1
IABP	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Coronary angiography before SCI	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Localization (artery)	Radial	Femoral	Femoral		NK
Critical illness polyneuropathy at sedation withdrawal that could have delayed SCI diagnosis	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Delay between awakening and SCI diagnosis (days)	36	48	0	33	0	NA*
Biology at ECMO start
pH	7.23	7.26	7.50	7.20	6.87	7.63
PaCO2, mmHg	23.5	31.8	31.3	33	70	31.8
PaO2, mmHg	375	73	68.8	142	40	61.7
Lactate, mmol/L	4.4	9	0.9	12.5	15	1
Platelets count, 109/mL	234	45	73	260	100	51
APTT (patient/reference) ratio	1.9	1.2	1.7	1,7	ND	2.48
Prothrombin time, %	66	30	65	46	50	76
Fibrinogen, g/L	2.4	5.8	5.5	1.8	1.8	5.6
Biology at SCI diagnosis
pH	7.51	7.46	7.49	7.49	7.4	ND
PaCO2, mmHg	76.8	43.6	35.8	27.1	37	ND
PaO2, mmHg	41.3	40	129	70	90	ND
Lactate, mmol/L	1.9	1.2	0.9	1.6	1.5	ND
Platelets, 109/mL	442	347	168	69	259	212
APTT (patient/reference) ratio	2	1.3	1	1.17	1.7	1.6
Prothrombin time, %	57	78	87	76	80	60
Fibrinogen, g/L	7.4	7	7.8	3.6	4	4.3
- year follow-up	Wheelchair urinary tract self-catheterization	Wheelchair urinary tract self-catheterization	Wheelchair urinary tract self-catheterization	NA	Wheelchair	Pain in the lower limbs

Patient was always awake without sedation

ICU intensive care unit, VA-ECMO venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, SAPS simplified acute physiology score, SOFA sequential organ-failure assessment, SCI spinal cord infarction, IABP intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation, APTT activated partial thrombin time, NA not applicable, NK not known