Fernando Godinho Zampieri, Pedro Vitale Mendes, Otavio T Ranzani, Leandro Utino Taniguchi, Luciano Cesar Pontes Azevedo, Eduardo Leite Vieira Costa, Marcelo Park
BACKGROUND: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for acute respiratory failure is still a matter of debate. METHODS: We performed a structured search on Pubmed, EMBASE, Lilacs, and the Cochrane Library for randomized controlled trials and observational case-control studies with severity-paired patients, evaluating the use of ECMO on severe acute respiratory failure in adult patients. A random-effect model using DerSimonian and Laird method for variance estimator was performed to evaluate the effect of ECMO use on hospital mortality...
December 2013: Journal of Critical Care