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Annals of Intensive Care

Table 2 Mortality of children with cancer placed on ECMO and comparison with patients without cancer (from[53])

From: The critically-ill pediatric hemato-oncology patient: epidemiology, management, and strategy of transfer to the pediatric intensive care unit

 

Cancer patients

Noncancer patients

p value

All ECMO

   

ECMO mortality

58% (62/107)

  

Hospital mortality

65% (70/107)

  

Pulmonary ECMO

   

ECMO mortality

58% (50/86)

35%

<0.0001

Hospital mortality

64% (55/86)

44%

<0.0002

Cardiac ECMO

   

ECMO mortality

57% (8/14)

39%

0.17

Hospital mortality

71% (10/14)

55%

0.22

  1. ECMO = extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
  2. aIncludes 86 pulmonary ECMO, 14 cardiac ECMO, and 7 ECMO for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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