Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Variability in patient selection criteria across extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) systems: A systematic review
Authors' conclusion
We observed marked variability across systems in the eligibility criteria for potential ECPR patients.
Study context
- Population
- ECPR systems for patients in refractory cardiac arrest
- Participants
- 93 participants · 90 studies
- Outcome
- Variability in patient eligibility criteria for ECPR across systems
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
ECPR eligibility criteria across systems
- Age criterion
- n=75, 80.7%
- Arrest witnessed status criterion
- n=64, 68.8%
- Any initial rhythm criterion
- n=55, 59.1%
- Bystander CPR criterion
- n=33, 35.5%
- Age cut-off range
- 50 to 80 years
- Most common age cut-off
- 75 years
- Systems with no age cut-off
- 18 (19.3%)
Parts of this Brief are withheld: the automatic checks could not confirm them against the abstract.
Original publication
Variability in patient selection criteria across extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) systems: A systematic review. Resuscitation. Published 24 September 2024. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it