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Table 2 Duration of treatment, overall hospital survival and survival by week of ECMO termination

From: Duration of veno-arterial extracorporeal life support (VA ECMO) and outcome: an analysis of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) registry

    

Overall survival (95% confidence interval)

Survival at weeks 1, 2 and 3

Clinical category

Number

Median duration (h)

IQR

 

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3+

Medical: non-cardiac

115

87

31–170

49.6% (40.6–58.6)

53.5% (43.0–63.7)

42.8% (24.5–63.5)

25.0% (7.1–59.1)

Medical: other cardiac disease

383

96

48–162

38.4% (33.6–43.3)

37.0% (31.7–42.7)

42.0% (31.1–53.8)

47.1% (26.2–69.0)

Medical: structural heart disease

296

117

58–192

44.3% (38.7–50.0)

43.1% (36.4–50.0)

50.7% (39.3–62.0)

34.8% (18.8–55.1)

Medical: myocarditis

87

154

96–230

64.4% (53.9–73.6)

70.6% (57.0–81.3)

62.5% (42.7–78.8)

41.7% (19.3–68.0)

Medical: coronary artery disease

424

109

51–177

40.1% (36.0–45.3)

40.6% (35.3–46.2)

42.2% (32.1–52.9)

35.5% (21.1–53.1)

Surgical: post VAD

117

68

33–122

41.9% (33.3–50.9)

41.0% (32.0–50.5)

44.4% (18.9–73.3)

66.7% (20.8–93.9)

Surgical: post heart transplantation

175

108

66–173

57.1% (49.7–64.2)

60.0% (51.4–68.0)

52.9% (36.7–68.6)

36.3% (15.2–64.6)

Surgical: other cardiac

972

87

41–146

35.9% (33.0–39.0)

38.7% (35.3–42.1)

25.3% (19.0–33.0)

20.0% (10.5–34.8)

Overall

2699

96

47–164

41.4% (39.5–43.3)

42.5% (40.4–44.7)

39.2% (34.9–43.6)

32.9% (26.0–40.6)

  1. IQR interquartile range, VAD ventricular assist device