Fate of patients weaned from post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support.
Anne-Kristin SchaeferJulia RiebandtMartin H BernardiKlaus DistelmaierGeorg GoliaschDaniel ZimpferGuenther LauferDominik WiedemannPublished in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)
In-hospital mortality of patients requiring PC-ECLS is high even in case of successful weaning. Longer ECLS duration, older age, female gender and low preoperative glomerular filtration rate were risk factors for in-hospital mortality after ECLS weaning. Survival of patients discharged after PC-ECLS was encouraging.