Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in trauma patients: An analysis of the ELSO registry
Authors' conclusion
ECPR can be used to restore circulation in trauma patients with cardiac arrest. ECPR may result in higher-than-expected survival rates, even when applied in patients with traumatic cardiac arrest.
Study context
- Population
- Adult trauma patients receiving extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), ELSO registry, 01/01/2020–01/12/2024of 13,132 ECPR patients
- Participants
- 134 patients
- Exposure
- Traumatic cardiac arrest vs Medical aetiology
- Traumatic cardiac arrestn = 24
- Medical aetiologyn = 110
- Outcome
- Hospital survival
Methodological detailsELSO registry
- ELSO registry
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Traumatic reasons for cardiac arrest (traumatic cardiac arrest)
%
- Haemorrhagic shock
- 33.3
- Respiratory failure
- 29.2
- Pericardial tamponade
- 25.0
- Other pathologies
- 12.5
- Penetrating trauma as injury mechanism
- 50
Reasons for arrest of medical aetiology
- OHCA of medical aetiology (all with an acute cardiac condition)
- 20.3 %
- In-hospital arrests of medical aetiology
- 79.7 %
- Acute HF (in-hospital)
- 10
- PE (in-hospital)
- 10
- Sepsis (in-hospital)
- 6
Original publication
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in trauma patients: An analysis of the ELSO registry. Resuscitation. Published 7 November 2025. doi:10.
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