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Early outcomes after post-cardiotomy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in paediatric patients: a contemporary, binational cohort study.

Lachlan CrawfordSupreet P MaratheKim Steven BettsTom R KarlAdrian MattkeSarfaraz RahimanIsobella CampbellTakamichi InoueHarikrishnan NairAjay IyengarIgor E Konstantinovnull nullPrem Sundar VenugopalNelson Alphonso
Published in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2024)
In the current era, one-third of patients who required PC-ECMO after paediatric cardiac surgery in Australia and New Zealand did not survive to hospital discharge. The Norwood procedure and isolated modified Blalock-Taussig shunt had the highest incidence of requiring PC-ECMO. Patients undergoing the Norwood procedure had the highest mortality (48%). Two-thirds of patients on PC-ECMO developed a major complication.
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