Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Effect in Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Ventricular Fibrillation; Cardiac Arrest; Ventricular Tachycardia

Treatments: Procedure: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00173615

9461700820

Details and patient eligibility

About

Analysis of the patients' data who were rescued with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and without ECMO. The survival rate and the weaning rate were analyzed to see the effect of ECMO on the prolonged CPR.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• CPR > 10 min without return of spontaneous circulation

Exclusion criteria

• CPR with traumatic origin unless bleeding was under control, previous irreversible brain damage, terminal status of malignancy, and the age over 75 years. For the patients with post-cardiotomy shock requiring ECLS in the operating theater because of an inability of weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass, they were excluded as well from this ECPR cohort since they did not receive cardiac massage. The patients that had signed "Do-Not-Resuscitate" (DNR) consent were also excluded from ECLS deployment.