• Amr Salah Omar, Ahmed Labib, Samy Elsayed Hanoura, Alaa Rahal, Rasha Kaddoura, Talat Saeed Chughtai, Edin Karic, Mohammed Shafee Shaikh, Wasfy Jameel Hamad, Mawahib ElHassan, AbdulAziz AlHashemi, Mohamad Yahya Khatib, and Abdulaziz AlKhulaifi.
• Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery/Cardiac ICU Section, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt; Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar, Doha, Qatar. Electronic address: a_s_omar@yahoo.com.
• J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth. 2022 Aug 1; 36 (8 Pt B): 2891-2899.

ObjectivesThis study aimed at investigating the effects of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service on Burnout syndrome (BOS) development in the intensive care unit (ICU).DesignThe authors conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study.SettingsEight ICUs within 5 tertiary hospitals in 1 country.ParticipantsIntensive care practitioners (nurses, physicians, and respiratory therapists).InterventionUsing an online questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel. In addition, demographic variables, workload, salary satisfaction, and caring for COVID-19 patients were assessed. Participants were divided based on working in an ICU with ECMO (ECMO-ICU) and without (non-ECMO-ICU) ECMO service, and burnout status (burnout and no burnout).Measurements And Main ResultsThe response rate for completing the questionnaire was 36.4% (445/1,222). Male patients represented 53.7% of the participants. The overall prevalence of burnout was 64.5%. The overall burnout prevalence did not differ between ECMO- and non-ECMO-ICU groups (64.5% and 63.7, respectively). However, personal accomplishment (PA) score was significantly lower among ECMO-ICU personnel compared with those in a non-ECMO-ICU (42.7% v 52.6, p = 0.043). Significant predictors of burnout included profession (nurse or physician), acquiring COVID-19 infection, knowing other practitioners who were infected with COVID-19, salary dissatisfaction, and extremes of workload.ConclusionBurnout was equally prevalent among participants from ECMO- and non-ECMO-ICU, but PA was lower among participants in the ICU with an ECMO service. The reported high prevalence of burnout, and its predictors, requires special attention to try to reduce its occurrence.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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