Patient’s baseline characteristics before eCPR
Baseline demographics are presented in Table 1. The ECMO group accounted for 64 patients, of which 53 were male (82.5%) and 11 females (17.5%). The ECMO+Impella® group included seven male (100%) patients. The median age was 59(55;65) years in the ECMO group and 56(42;64) years in the ECMO+Impella® group (p=0.32).
Scenarios of eCPR did differ between the groups (OHCA: 86% ECMO+Impella® vs. 39% ECMO, p=0.21; IHCA: 14% ECMO+Impella® vs 38% ECMO, p=0.21). Low-flow time was 60 minutes on average in both groups.