Extracorporeal Life Support Organization 1993

Abstract

This is the annual report of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. It concerns the aggregate experience of all reported patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as of April 1993. The patients are either neonatal, pediatric pulmonary, or neonatal/pediatric cardiac. A survival rate of 81% (neonatal), 48% (pediatric), and 45% (cardiac) is reported in patients thought to have at least an 80% mortality likelihood.