Clinical Outcomes
The main outcome variables included ECMO weaning, survival to hospital discharge, 90-day survival, and long-term survival. Secondary outcomes included acute kidney injury that required renal replacement therapy, sepsis, ischemic stroke, RV dysfunction at discharge, ECMO-related complications and vascular complications. Furthermore, we calculated patient’s SOFA scores at cannulation and day 1, 3, and 7 and the inotrope score; during the ECMO and mechanical ventilation.
Bleeding complications were reported using the GUSTO classification13. The number of packs of blood products transfused were also collected.