Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Hospital extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) capability is associated with survival in pediatric cardiac arrest
Main finding · In-hospital survivalResult — go to the resultOdds ratio 1.49 95% CI 1.09–2.02Authors' conclusion
A hospital's ECMO capability was associated with higher in-hospital survival among children suffering cardiac arrest in this analysis of a large United States administrative dataset.
Study context
- Population
- Children (0–18 years) hospitalized with in- or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, US Health Care Utilization Project (HCUP) National Inpatient Sample, 2016–2018
- Participants
- 1,276 cardiac arrest hospitalizations
- Exposure
- ECMO-capable vs non-ECMO hospitals
- ECMO-capablen = 811
- Outcome
- In-hospital survival
Methodological detailshierarchical logistic regression, administrative database
- Hierarchical logistic regression
- Administrative database
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Odds ratio
1.49
95% CI 1.09–2.02
By group
ECMO-capable vs Non-ECMO
OR 1.49 (95% CI 1.09–2.02)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Patient age
P < 0.001
- Receipt of ECMO support at ECMO-capable hospitals
- 10.9% · 88 of 811
Patient age
- ECMO-capable hospital patients more likely to have a complex chronic condition, specifically congenital heart disease
Original publication
Hospital ECMO capability is associated with survival in pediatric cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 26 May 2023. doi:10.
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