Skip to main content

Table 3 Outcome of patients

From: Dual titration of minute ventilation and sweep gas flow to control carbon dioxide variations in patients on venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Variables

All patients (n = 51)

Control group (n = 24)

Protocol group (n = 27)

p

VAP

36 (71)

15 (63)

21 (78)

0.23

ICU length of stay (d)

31 [21–48]

26 [16–46]

40 [25–70]

0.05

Duration of mechanical ventilation (d)

28 [14–49]

23 [11–41]

30 [19–56]

0.16

Renal replacement therapy

24 (47)

10 (42)

14 (52)

0.47

ECMO implantation by mobile circulatory assistance unit

21 (41)

5 (21)

16 (59)

0.01

ECMO duration (d)

16 [9–25]

13 [6–19]

21 [12–43]

0.01

Death in hospital

20 (40)

11 (46)

9 (35)

0.52

Cause of death

 Intracranial bleeding

3 (6)

3 (13)

0 (0)

0.1

 MOF

16 (31)

7 (29)

9 (33)

0.74

 Cardiac arrest

2 (4)

1 (4)

1 (4)

1

Bleeding (ISTH definition)

 Minor bleeding

4 (8)

1 (4)

3 (11)

0.61

 Major bleeding

32 (63)

16 (67)

16 (59)

Site of bleeding

 Number of performed brain CT

0 [0–1]

0 [0–1]

0 [0–1]

0.87

 Number of patients who had at least one brain CT during ECMO run

18 (35)

8 (33)

10 (37)

0.78

 Intracranial

7 (14)

6 (25)

1 (4)

0.04

 ORL

21 (41)

9 (38)

12 (44)

0.62

 Gastro-intestinal

7 (14)

3 (13)

4 (15)

1

 Lung

3 (5)

1 (4)

2 (7)

1

 Cannula

20 (39)

11 (46)

9 (33)

0.36

 Tamponade

1 (2)

0 (0)

1 (4)

1

  1. SAPS 2 Simplified Acute Physiology Score 2; ICU intensive care unit; COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; VAP ventilator acquired pneumonia; ICU intensive care unit; ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; MOF multiple organ failure; ISTH international Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis