Acute cardiac care & resuscitation

Early Left Ventricular Unloading After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Rationale and Design of EARLY-UNLOAD Trial

ESC Heart FailPublished Randomised controlled trial

Study context

Population
Patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO)
Participants
116 patients
Planned comparison
Early LV unloading vs conventional approach after VA-ECMO
Primary endpoint
Cumulative incidence of all-cause death
Follow-up
30 days
Methodological detailsrationale and design paper, single-centre, open-label, 1:1 randomisation, Enrolment finished September 2022; follow-up 12 months
  • Rationale and design paper
  • Single-centre
  • Open-label
  • 1:1 randomisation
  • Enrolment finished September 2022; follow-up 12 months

No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.

Original publication

Early Left Ventricular Unloading After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Rationale and Design of EARLY-UNLOAD Trial. ESC Heart Fail. Published 6 July 2023. doi:10.1002/ehf2.14450

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