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.