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Table 2 Patient outcome

From: Trends in survival during the pandemic in patients with critical COVID-19 receiving mechanical ventilation with or without ECMO: analysis of the Japanese national registry data

Variable

Total cohort

Ventilator alone group

ECMO group

p-value*

Ventilator days before starting ECMO (days)

N/A

N/A

1 (0–5)

N/A

Ventilator days (days)

10 (6–19)

9 (6–16)

24 (15–44)

 < 0.001

ECMO days (days)

N/A

N/A

13 (9–24)

N/A

Overall survival

7239 (77)

6515 (79)

785 (65)

 < 0.001

90-day survival

7265 (77)

6524 (80)

801 (66)

 < 0.001

  1. Bold indicates analyses with statistically significant differences (p < 0.05)
  2. Data are expressed as number (percentage) or median (interquartile range, IQR)
  3. N/A, not available
  4. *The p-values are the values comparing the ventilation alone group with the ECMO group
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