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Table 1 Large, recent studies of ECMO for acute respiratory failure: Key patient features

From: Extracorporeal gas exchange for acute respiratory failure in adult patients: a systematic review

First author [ref]

Design

Prospective

Setting

Quality assessment§

Follow up

ECMO patients

Years

Age

Pneumonia, %

Mobile ECMO team, %

SOFA score

Peek, ECMO Arm, CESAR trial [18]

RCT

Y

Multi

RCT6

6 months

68

2001–2006

40 ± 13

62

0

–

Schmidt [50]

Case series

Y

Multi

–

Hospital discharge

2,355

2000–2012

41 (28–54)

34

–

–

Brogan [26]

Case series

N

Multi

–

Hospital discharge

1,473

1986–2006

35 (22–53)

26

–

–

Enger [51]

Case series

Y

Single

–

Hospital discharge

284

2008–2013

46 (43–48)†

49

47

11 (11–12)

Hemmila [27]

Case series

N

Single

–

Hospital discharge

280

1989–2003

38 ± 13

31

37

–

Schmid [32]

Case series

N

Single

–

ICU discharge

176

2007–2010

48 ± 17

58

34

12 ± 4

Schmidt [33]

Case series

N

Multi

–

6 months

140

2008–2012

44 (30–56)

71£

68

12 (10–15)

Lindskov [31]

Case series

Y

Single

–

ICU discharge

124

1977–2011

42 (16–67)

64

85

–

Roch [49]

Case series

N

Single

–

Hospital discharge

85

2009–2013

47 ± 15

86

100

9 (7–11)

Rega [74]

Case series

N

Single

–

90 days

70

1997–2005

43 ± 18

41

–

–

Mols [28]

Case–control

Y

Single

7

Hospital discharge

62

1991–1999

35 ± 11

58

0

7 (6–9)

Muller [35]

Case series

Y

Single

–

ICU discharge

60

2006–2008

53 (21–78)

42

17

14 (11–16)

Lewandowski [29]

Case–control

Y

Single

9

ICU discharge

49

1989–1995

31 ± 14

37

–

–

Forrest [34]

Case series

N

Multi

–

Hospital discharge

38

2007–2010

34 (26–42)

89#

100

8 (5–10)

Frenckner [75]

Case series

N

Single

–

ICU

38

1995–2002

38 (17–61)

60

32

 

Michaels [46]

Case series

N

Single

–

ICU discharge

36

2009–2012

40 ± 6

58$

69

–

Beiderlinden [30]

Case–control

Y

Single

9

Hospital discharge

32

1998–2003

42 ± 13

53

–

14 ± 3

  1. ICU, intensive care unit; Multi, multicenter; N, no; RCT, randomized control trial; SOFA; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; Y, yes.
  2. Data are given as mean ± SD or median (interquartile range). £26% were H1N1 pneumonia; #42% were H1N1 pneumonia; $44% were H1N1 pneumonia.
  3. §Randomized controlled trial quality was graded using a nine-point scale combining elements from Jadad’s [21] and Chalmers’ scales [23,24] whereas the validity of case-controlled studies was appraised with the Newcastle-Ottawa scale [25]; †in the survivors.