Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Post-resuscitation care after adult extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A scoping review
Authors' conclusion
Post-resuscitation care after adult ECPR remains poorly characterized and insufficiently studied. Available evidence across all domains is constrained by heterogeneity, retrospective designs, and small sample sizes.
Study context
- Population
- Adults treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) after out-of-hospital or in-hospital cardiac arrest133 studies
- Outcome
- Domains of post-resuscitation care investigated
Methodological detailsPubMed and Embase searched from inception to May 19, 2025; narrative synthesis
- PubMed and Embase searched from inception to May 19, 2025; narrative synthesis
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Hemodynamic monitoring and management
- 30/133, 23 %
- Neurological monitoring and prognostication
- 22/133, 17 %
- Oxygenation, carbon dioxide and ventilation
- 18/133, 14 %
- Complications other than bleeding
- 15/133, 11 %
- Coagulation/bleeding
- 13/133, 9.8 %
- Long-term outcomes
- 8/133, 6.0 %
- Temperature control
- 8/133, 6.0 %
- Imaging
- 7/133, 5.3 %
- Organ donation
- 5/133, 3.8 %
- General intensive care management
- 5/133, 3.8 %
Further findings
Evidence quality
- Studies including >500 patients
- 22/133 [17 %]
- Retrospective studies
- 119/133 [90 %]
Original publication
Post-resuscitation care after adult extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A scoping review. Resuscitation. Published 4 November 2025. doi:10.
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