Yohei Okada, Sho Komukai, Taro Irisawa, Tomoki Yamada, Kazuhisa Yoshiya, Changhwi Park, Tetsuro Nishimura, Takuya Ishibe, Hitoshi Kobata, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Masafumi Kishimoto, Sung-Ho Kim, Yusuke Ito, Taku Sogabe, Takaya Morooka, Haruko Sakamoto, Keitaro Suzuki, Atsunori Onoe, Tasuku Matsuyama, Norihiro Nishioka, Satoshi Matsui, Satoshi Yoshimura, Shunsuke Kimata, Shunsuke Kawai, Yuto Makino, Kosuke Kiyohara, Ling Zha, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Taku Iwami, Tetsuhisa Kitamura
BACKGROUND: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) has been proposed as a rescue therapy for patients with refractory cardiac arrest. This study aimed to evaluate the association between ECPR and clinical outcomes among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) using risk-set matching with a time-dependent propensity score. METHODS: This was a secondary analysis of the JAAM-OHCA registry data, a nationwide multicenter prospective study of patients with OHCA, from June 2014 and December 2019, that included adults (≥ 18 years) with OHCA...
November 15, 2023: Critical Care: the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum