Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Following Traumatic Injury: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the overall occurrence of inhospital mortality in trauma patients who were placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation following the complication of the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

The data of all patients who were traumatically injured and developed the complication of acute respiratory distress syndrome were accessed from the Trauma Quality Improvement Program database from the calendar years of 2013 to 2016.

Patients

Patients 16 years old and less than 90 years old were included in the study. Variables included patient demography, Injury Severity Score, Glasgow Coma Scale score, Abbreviated Injury Scale score, and outcomes.

Interventions

Extracorp

SUBMITTER: Ahmed N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8133149 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature