welcomes you to the new, improved website!An institutional registry of ECMO patients was surveyed to determine predictors of survival among patients receiving ECMO in the presence of sepsis. Among 151 studied patients, pneumonia was the most common cause of sepsis. Mortality was predicted by advanced age, longer door-to ECMO times, gram-negative sepsis, and sepsis due to infections other than pneumonia.
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Predictors of survival in adults undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with severe infections
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Author(s): Aristine Cheng, Hsin-Yun Sun, Mao-Song Tsai, Wen-Je Ko, Pi-Ru Tsai, Fu-Chang Hu, Yee-Chun Chen, Shan-Chwen Chang
