Lachlan Crawford, Supreet P Marathe, Kim S Betts, Tom R Karl, Adrian Mattke, Sarfaraz Rahiman, Isobella Campbell, Takamichi Inoue, Harikrishnan Nair, Ajay Iyengar, Igor E Konstantinov, Prem Venugopal, Nelson Alphonso
OBJECTIVES: To assess the early outcomes and risk factors of paediatric patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after cardiac surgery (post cardiotomy). METHODS: Retrospective binational cohort study from the Australia and New Zealand Congenital Outcomes Registry for Surgery database. All patients younger than 18 years of age who underwent a paediatric cardiac surgical procedure from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2021 and required post-cardiotomy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the same hospital admission were included in the study...
April 5, 2024: European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery