title: Extracorporeal Life Support Registry Report 1995.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0331, USA.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Bartlett
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012042:Registries; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000628:therapy