Risk factors for mortality in 137 pediatric cardiac intensive care unit patients managed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation*

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Abstract
To identify factors associated with mortality in children with heart disease managed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Retrospective chart review. Tertiary care university-affiliated children’s hospital. All pediatric cardiac intensive care unit patients managed with ECMO between January 1, 1995, and June 30, 2001. None. During the study period, 137 patients were managed with ECMO in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Of the 137 patients, 80 (58%) survived ≥24 hrs after decannulation, and 53 (39%) survived to hospital discharge. Patients managed with ECMO following cardiac surgery were analyzed separately from patients not in the postoperative period. Factors associated with an increased probability of mortality in the postoperative patients were age In a series of 137 patients managed with ECMO in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, survival to hospital discharge was 39%. In postoperative patients only, mortality risk was increased in males, patients