Mortality in Patients with Obesity and ARDS Receiving ECMO: The Multicenter ECMObesity Study.
Darya RudymTài PhamCraig R RackleyGiacomo GrasselliMichaela R AndersonMatthew R BaldwinJeremy R BeitlerCara AgerstrandAlexis SerraLisle A WinstonDesiree BonadonnaNatalie YipLogan J EmersonAmy DzierbaJoshua SonettDarryl AbramsNiall D FergusonMatthew J BacchettaMatthieu SchmidtDaniel Brodienull nullPublished in: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2023)
Among patients receiving ECMO for ARDS, patients with obesity had lower ICU mortality than patients without obesity in multivariable and propensity score matching analyses. Our findings support the notion that obesity should not be considered a general contraindication to ECMO.
Keyphrases
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- mechanical ventilation
- respiratory failure
- end stage renal disease
- cardiovascular events
- intensive care unit
- newly diagnosed
- skeletal muscle
- prognostic factors
- cardiovascular disease
- body mass index
- cross sectional