Coronavirus Driscoll Children S Hospital Has Ample Equipment Ecmo Credit: chris hedly. the life support system called ecmo can rescue covid 19 patients from the brink of death, but not at the rates seen early in the pandemic, a new international study finds. where once about 60% of such patients survived at least 90 days in spring 2020, by the end of the year just under half of covid patients on ecmo survived. Data on v a ecmo for covid 19 are limited in the elso registry study and may be found in small case series, making the utility of v a ecmo for covid 19–related cardiogenic shock less clear. 6–8,14 as a general guide to practice, we recommend the use of ecmo for patients with covid 19 and severe cardiopulmonary failure who meet traditional.
What Is Ecmo Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation And How Is It Being Ecmo machines became a last ditch treatment for covid. but only half of the patients who got ecmo survived, raising questions about whether this expensive and hard to access treatment is worth it. In 2020, 4812 patients with covid 19 received ecmo across 349 centres within 41 countries. for early adopting centres, the cumulative incidence of in hospital mortality 90 days after ecmo initiation was 36·9% (95% ci 34·1–39·7) in patients who started ecmo on or before may 1 (group a1) versus 51·9% (50·0–53·8) after may 1 (group a2); at late adopting centres (group b), it was 58·9%. The primary endpoint was the overall mortality of patients with covid 19 receiving ecmo. of the total number of 58,472 patients with covid 19 reported, ecmo was used in 4,044 patients. the analysis suggested an overall in hospital mortality of 39% (95% ci 0.34 0.43). in the comparative analysis, patients with covid 19 on ecmo had a higher risk. Getty images. extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ecmo, replaces the function of the heart and lungs. ecmo is helping some covid 19 patients for whom standard treatments have failed and a.
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