Why the study?
What are the pathological complications found at necropsy in non-surviving neonates treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation?
Population
12 neonates who died during or shortly after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and underwent postmortem…
Design
Case_series
Authors
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Necropsy findings document frequent complications in neonatal ECMO non-survivors; case reports leave open causality and should not yet change practice.
What are the pathological complications found at necropsy in non-surviving neonates treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation?
Necropsy of neonatal ECMO non-survivors reveals a high incidence of severe complications including hemorrhage, sepsis, and anoxic brain injury, likely reflecting a progression of severe underlying disease prolonged by ECMO.
McKeever et al. (1994) studied this question.
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