Cardiac Arrest, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular Tachycardia
Conditions
Keywords
ECMO, CPR
Brief summary
Analysis of the patients' data who were rescued with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and without ECMO. The survival rate and the weaning rate were analyzed to see the effect of ECMO on the prolonged CPR.
Interventions
PROCEDUREExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Sponsors
National Taiwan University Hospital
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* CPR \> 10 min without return of spontaneous circulation
Exclusion criteria
* CPR with traumatic origin unless bleeding was under control, previous irreversible brain damage, terminal status of malignancy, and the age over 75 years. For the patients with post-cardiotomy shock requiring ECLS in the operating theater because of an inability of weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass, they were excluded as well from this ECPR cohort since they did not receive cardiac massage. The patients that had signed Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) consent were also excluded from ECLS deployment.
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed