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Table 1 Patient characteristics for resuscitated drowned patients

From: ECMO in resuscitated drowning patients: a propensity score matched sub-analysis—a response to Jouffroy et al.

 

ECMO

Non-ECMO

p value

N

%

 

N

%

 

Total

61

  

61

   

VV-ECMO

14

23.0

     

VA-ECMO

47

77.0

     

Death

53

86.9

 

34

55.7

 

< 0.0001

Female

19

31.1

 

16

26.2

 

0.5482

 

Q1

Median

Q3

Q1

Median

Q3

p value

Age (year)

16.0

30.0

54.0

18.0

33.0

59.0

0.3937

Hospital stay (h)

7.0

42.6

176.6

16.0

70.5

289.8

0.1773

Elixhauser score

8.0

13.0

19.0

5.0

11.0

20.0

0.6554

Comorbidities

N

%

 

N

%

 

p value

Congestive heart failure

11

18.0

 

11

18.0

 

1.0000

Hypertension

4

6.6

 

13

21.3

 

0.0186

Chronic pulmonary disease

*

*

 

*

*

  

Diabetes

*

*

 

*

*

  

Renal failure

*

*

 

*

*

  

Obesity

0

0.0

 

3

4.9

 

0.0795

Complications

N

%

 

N

%

 

p value

Intracranial Bleeding

3

4.9

 

0

0.0

 

0.0795

Stroke

*

*

 

*

*

  

Pulmonary Embolism

*

*

 

*

*

  

Arterial embolism and/or thrombosis

*

*

 

*

*

  

Myocardial Infarction

*

*

 

*

*

  

CPR prior to admission

49

80.3

 

54

88.5

 

0.2119

In-hospital CPR

30

49.2

 

18

29.5

 

0.0262

Dialysis

15

24.6

 

11

18.0

 

0.3765

  1. V-V venovenous, V-A venoarterial, ECMO—extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  2. *censored < 3 patients