• Paediatric anaesthesia · Aug 2008

    Intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and survival of pediatric patients undergoing repair of congenital heart disease.

    • Randall P Flick, Juraj Sprung, Stephen J Gleich, Roxann D Barnes, David O Warner, Joseph A Dearani, Phillip D Scott, Andrew C Hanson, Darrell R Schroeder, and Gregory J Schears.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
    • Paediatr Anaesth. 2008 Aug 1;18(8):757-66.

    BackgroundWe studied the association between the introduction of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) into routine practice and the survival of children who failed weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We compare two periods, before formal introduction of ECMO in our institution (1993-1999, pre-ECMO era) and after ECMO became a formalized program (2000-2006, ECMO era).MethodsRetrospective review of Mayo Clinic Database between 1993 and 2006 for outcomes of patients <18 years old who required ECMO during repair of congenital heart malformations.ResultsThirty-five children during ECMO era received intraoperative ECMO, and 17 (54%) survived to hospital discharge. The frequency of ECMO use was the highest in neonates, therefore, this was the only subcohort of pediatric patients that allowed comparison of survival between the pre-ECMO and ECMO eras. When compared to pre-ECMO era, neonatal survival increased during ECMO era (P = 0.043). ECMO was mostly used in neonates with higher complexity of cardiac defects undergoing more complex repairs, and the overall improvement of survival was primarily due to better survival of these patients. During pre-ECMO era, survival was lower in patients with higher risk (P = 0.001). However, during ECMO era, no difference in survival was observed across assigned risk groups (P = 0.658).ConclusionsThe availability of ECMO for neonates failing to wean from CPB was associated with improved survival, especially in children undergoing repair of the most complex congenital heart malformations. After introduction of ECMO, survival improved and no longer depended upon the complexity of surgical repair.

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