Incidence, outcomes and risk factors of barotrauma in veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome.

There is a high incidence of barotrauma in ARDS patients during ECMO, even after ECMO decannulation. Young age, PJP, elevated body temperature and low platelet count after establishing ECMO are risk factors of barotrauma, and those patients should be closely monitored by imaging, especially in the late stage of ARDS.