Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Outcomes of extracorporeal life support in hypothermic cardiac arrest: Revisiting Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) guidelines
Study context
- Population
- Patients with hypothermic cardiac arrest (HCA) treated with extracorporeal life support (ECLS)
- Participants
- 127 patients
- Exposure
- ECLS in HCA patients meeting vs not meeting ELSO eligibility criteria
- Met ELSO criterian = 62reference
- Not meeting ELSO criterian = 65
- Outcome
- Survival to hospital discharge
Methodological detailsmulticentre
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
%
- Favourable neurological outcome among survivors — Met ELSO criteria
- 89
- Survival to discharge by number of ELSO criteria not met (subgroup) — Survivors with favourable neurological outcome, 1 or 2 criteria not met
- 83
- Survival to discharge by number of ELSO criteria not met (subgroup): 1 criterion not met 38 % · 18 of 47
- Survival to discharge by number of ELSO criteria not met (subgroup): 2 criteria not met 38 % · 6 of 16
Survival to discharge by number of ELSO criteria not met (subgroup)
- The two patients who failed to meet all three ELSO criteria did not survive
Parts of this Brief are withheld: the automatic checks could not confirm them against the abstract.
Original publication
Outcomes of extracorporeal life support in hypothermic cardiac arrest: Revisiting ELSO guidelines. Resuscitation. Published 5 November 2024. doi:10.
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