Mitsuaki Nishikimi, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Wataru Fukumoto, Jun Hamaguchi, Kazuki Matsumura, Kenji Fujizuka, Yoshihiro Hagiwara, Ryuichi Nakayama, Naofumi Bunya, Junichi Maruyama, Toshikazu Abe, Tatsuhiko Anzai, Yoshitaka Ogata, Hiromichi Naito, Yu Amemiya, Tokuji Ikeda, Masayuki Yagi, Yutaro Furukawa, Hayato Taniguchi, Tsukasa Yagi, Ken Katsuta, Daisuke Konno, Ginga Suzuki, Yuki Kawasaki, Noriyuki Hattori, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Natsuki Kondo, Hitoshi Kikuchi, Shinichi Kai, Saaya Ichiyama, Kazuo Awai, Kunihiko Takahashi, Nobuaki Shime
BACKGROUND: Chest computed tomography findings are helpful for understanding the pathophysiology of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, there is no large, multicenter, chest computed tomography registry for patients requiring veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO). The aim of this study was to describe chest computed tomography findings at V-V ECMO initiation and to evaluate the association between the findings and outcomes in severe ARDS. METHODS: This multicenter, retrospective cohort study enrolled patients with severe ARDS on V-V ECMO, who were admitted to the intensive care units of 24 hospitals in Japan between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2022...
January 26, 2024: Journal of Intensive Care