Current trends and outcomes of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: A nationwide observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The present study aimed to describe the prevalence, prognosis and annual trends of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, using a nationwide inpatient database in Japan.

Methods

This was a nationwide retrospective cohort study, using the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database. We included OHCA patients registered in the database from July 2010 to March 2017 and analyzed the annual prevalence of OHCA patients who received ECPR. The outcomes included survival to hospital discharge and survival with favorable neurologic outcome at hospital discharge. The annual trends on the outcomes were also analyzed.

Results

We identified 217,907 eligible patients. OHCA patients were divided into

SUBMITTER: Nakajima M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244426 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature