Transportation of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a tertiary medical center experience and systematic review of the literature

Annals of Intensive Care

Table 1 General characteristics, ICU support and diagnosis of the patients

General characteristics	All patients (n = 7)
Age (yo)	28 [14,48]
Male [n(%)]	3 [43]
SAPS 3	84 [57,118]
SOFA	13 [7,18]
Lung injury score	4 [3,4]
Acute respiratory failure etiology
Pneumonia [n(%)]	4 [57]
Syncytial respiratory virus [n (%)]	1 [14]
Influenza A virus (H₃N₂) [n (%)]	1 [14]
Varicella zoster virus [n (%)]	1 [14]
Nosocomial pneumonia [n (%)]	2 [28]
Alveolar hemorrhage [n (%)]	1 [14]
Pre-ECMO initiation hospital data
Hospital LOS (days)	8 [3,30]
Days on mechanical ventilation	8 [1,19]
Pre-ECMO rescue maneuvers
Alveolar recruitment [n (%)]	7 (100)
Nitric oxide [n (%)]	1 [14]
Neuromuscular blockers [n (%)]	4 [57]
Corticosteroids [n (%)]	3 [43]
Tracheal gas insufflation [n (%)]	1 [14]
Clinical outcomes
ECMO weaning [n (%)]	5 (71)
Time on ECMO support (days)	5 [2, 10]
Hospital discharge	4 (57)
90-day survival [n (%)]	4 (57)

Quantitative data are expressed as median [minimum, maximum]
ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ICU intensive care unit, SAPS 3 simplified acute physiological score, SOFA sequential organ failure assessment; the lung injury score is the Murray’s score; and the two patients in the puerperal period were, respectively, in the 1st and 10th day after delivery; LOS length of stay, SBE standard base excess, PCV pressure-controlled ventilation, VCV volume-controlled ventilation, PEEP positive end-expiratory pressure