Long-term follow-up and quality of life in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for pulmonary embolism and cardiogenic shock.

Background: Since 2019, European guidelines recommend considering extracorporeal life support as salvage strategy for the treatment of acute high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) with circulatory collapse or cardiac arrest. However, data on long-term survival, quality of life (QoL) and cardiopulmonary function after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are lacking.

Methods: One hundred and nineteen patients with acute PE and severe cardiogenic shock or in need of mechanical resuscitation (CPR) received venoarterial or venovenous ECMO from 2007 to 2020.

The 'Weekend Effect' in adult patients who receive extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation after in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Aim: This study investigates the potentially adverse association between extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) after cardiac arrest on weekends versus weekdays.

Methods: Single-centre, retrospective, stratified (weekday versus weekend) analysis of 318 patients who underwent in-hospital ECPR after out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA/IHCA) between 01/2008 and 12/2018. Weekend was defined as the period between Friday 17:00 and Monday 06:59.