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Context-Responsive Anticoagulation Reduces Complications in Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
- Source :
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol 8 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Purpose: We sought to determine the impact of a comprehensive, context-responsive anticoagulation and transfusion guideline on bleeding and thrombotic complication rates and blood product utilization during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).Design: Single-center, observational pre- and post-implementation cohort study.Setting: Academic pediatric hospital.Patients: Patients in the PICU, CICU, and NICU receiving ECMO support.Interventions: Program-wide implementation of a context-responsive anticoagulation and transfusion guideline.Measurements: Pre-implementation subjects consisted of all patients receiving ECMO between January 1 and December 31, 2012, and underwent retrospective chart review. Post-implementation subjects consisted of all ECMO patients between September 1, 2013, and December 31, 2014, and underwent prospective data collection. Data collection included standard demographic and admission data, ECMO technical specifications, non-ECMO therapies, coagulation parameters, and blood product administration. A novel grading scale was used to define hemorrhagic complications (major, intermediate, and minor) and major thromboembolic complications.Main Results: Seventy-six ECMO patients were identified: 31 during the pre-implementation period and 45 in the post-implementation period. The overall observed mortality was 33% with no difference between groups. Compared to pre-implementation, the post-implementation group experienced fewer major hemorrhagic and major thrombotic complications and less severe hemorrhagic complications and received less RBC transfusion volume per kg.Conclusions: Use of a context-responsive anticoagulation and transfusion guideline was associated with a reduction in hemorrhagic and thrombotic complications and reduced RBC transfusion requirements. Further evaluation of guideline content, compliance, performance, and sustainability is needed.
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genetic structures
hemorrhagic complications
medicine.medical_treatment
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030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Cardiovascular Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Blood product
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
medicine
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
anticoagulation
Original Research
transfusion
business.industry
Guideline
extracorporeal support
pediatric
030228 respiratory system
Hemorrhagic complication
RC666-701
Emergency medicine
Observational study
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Thrombotic complication
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2297055X
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b5dffe8c19b8d3d4421f2c2dda68d9fc