Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest due to Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation.
Konstantinos Dean BoudoulasBryan A WhitsonDavid P KesegScott LillyCindy BakerTalal AttarQuinn CapersRichard J GuminaDavid W MastSree Veena SatyapriyaDixie DavenportMelinda HazlettNahush MokadamRaymond MagorienErnest L MazzaferriPublished in: Journal of interventional cardiology (2020)
ECPR for out-of-hospital refractory VT/VF cardiac arrest demonstrated encouraging outcomes. Younger patients may have a greater chance of survival, perhaps the need to be more aggressive in this subgroup of patients.