Methods
We retrospectively reviewed all adult patients placed on VA-V ECMO, for any part of the run, at our institution from June 1, 2016 to December 10, 2019. The decision to place patients on ECMO and choice of configuration was made by our institution’s ECMO team which consists of intensivists with special training and proficiency in ECMO. Through a review of the electronic medical records, data describing demographic features, comorbidities, and ECMO-specific information were reviewed systematically. Continuous variables were reported as median with interquartile range and categorical variables were summarized by frequency of observation. This study was approved by the Wellstar Research Institute Institutional Review Board (1624214-1).