Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Long-term quality of life after refractory cardiac arrest requiring ECLS: A 10 years single-center analysis
Authors' conclusion
Survivor patients who experienced cardiac arrest and treated with V-A ECMO presented a good long-term quality of life.
Study context
- Population
- Survivors of cardiac arrest requiring V-A ECMO in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary university hospital, 2006–201825 completed SF-36
- Participants
- 45 survivors
- Exposure
- Quality of life after V-A ECMO for cardiac arrest vs reference cohorts
- V-A ECMOn = 25
- Outcome
- Quality of life (SF-36)
Methodological detailssingle-centre, comparison with reference values, Patients contacted by mail and phone in 2021 to complete SF-36
- Single-centre
- Comparison with reference values
- Patients contacted by mail and phone in 2021 to complete SF-36
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
SF-36 sub-scores · mean 6.9 ± 2.3 years
- Sub-scores globally comparable with referent cohorts
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Long-term quality of life after refractory cardiac arrest requiring ECLS: A 10 years single-center analysis. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 24 April 2025. doi:10.
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