Washington—A study examining the relationship between blood requirements and outcomes in patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) support has shown that the total number of blood units transfused is predictive of mortality. Researchers also found that pediatric ECMO patients had a substantially lower mortality than adults.
“The bottom line is that 37% of the pediatric ECMO patients and 70% of the adult ECMO patients didn’t leave the hospital alive,”