Extracorporeal Life Support Registry Report 1995.
The annual ELSO Registry Report for 1995 is presented. Fourteen thousand patients treated with extracorporeal life support are reported, 11,000 are newborn infants with respiratory failure (80% survived). Survival is 53% in pediatric respiratory patients and 46% in adult respiratory patients. In 1993, the number of annual case reached a plateau of approximately 1500-1800 cases per year. The survival rate is gradually improving in pediatric and adult respiratory cases.
Bartlett
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University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0331, USA.
D000328:Adult; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012042:Registries; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy