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Epidemiology of Seizures and Association With Mortality in Adult Patients Undergoing ECMO: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Jaeho HwangArmaan Fazal AkbarLavienraj PremrajEva K RitzlSung-Min Cho
Published in: Neurology (2024)
Seizures are infrequent during ECMO support. However, they were associated with increased mortality when present. Multi-institutional, larger-scale studies using standardized EEG monitoring are necessary to further understand the risk factors of specific classes of seizures for individual ECMO types, and their effects on mortality. Limitations of our study include missing data for details on seizure types, sedating/antiseizure medications used during ECMO, other ECMO-related complications, and EEG recording protocols.
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