Inoue A, et al. ECPR in adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective large cohort multicenter study in Japan (SAVE-J II)

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The base rate against which any single centre should judge its own complication audit. Roughly one ECPR patient in three sustains a complication attributable to the circuit or its insertion.

None (descriptive cohort)

DOI 10.1186/s13054-022-03998-y

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Registry; complication definitions are heterogeneous and self-reported; Japanese practice and vessel size may not transfer.

Cannulation-related or ECMO-related complications in 32.7% of patients.

1,644 adults receiving ECPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across 36 Japanese centres