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Use for calibration, case-mix context and programme benchmarking only. Never cite registry survival as evidence that ECMO caused survival.
None - descriptive registry cohort
DOI 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002128
ECMO as delivered in reporting ELSO centres
Voluntary reporting; contributing centres are not a random sample; no comparator, so no causal inference about effect is possible. Case mix shifts over the period confound temporal trends.
154,568 ECMO runs across 780 centres (557 reporting in 2022). Median annual adult runs per centre rose from 4 to 15; paediatric/neonatal fell from 12 to 7. Survival to hospital discharge 68.5% neonatal respiratory, 29.5% adult ECPR. By 2022 the Registry had enrolled its 200,000th patient and 100,000th patient discharged alive.
Neonates, children and adults receiving ECMO, 2009-2022