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Incidence of early intra-cranial bleeding and ischaemia in adult veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation patients: a retrospective analysis of risk factors.

Maximilian Valentin MalfertheinerAndrea KochChristoph FisserJonathan Edward MillarLars Sigfried MaierFlorian ZemanFlorian PoschenriederMatthias LubnowAlois PhilippThomas Müller
Published in: Perfusion (2021)
Cerebral complications are frequent in patients on veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and may be clinically silent events. Careful monitoring with routine neuroimaging seems to be the most appropriate diagnostic approach at present. Intra-cranial ischaemia occurs more frequent than haemorrhage and is associated with cannulation of the aorta ascendens.
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