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Nosocomial Infections in Adult Patients Supported by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
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- Risk factors for nosocomial infections in ECMO patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Incidence, risk factors and outcomes of nosocomial infection in adult patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Epidemiology of nosocomial infections in ECMO patients in Qatar: the CLEAN-Q seven-year retrospective cohort study : CLEAN-Q stands for clinical landscape and epidemiology of acquired nosocomial infections in ECMO patients in Qatar.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Observational
- Infections in mechanical circulatory support.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- A Contemporary Guide of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Cardiogenic Shock.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients on Posttransplant Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- Risk for sepsis during mechanical circulatory support★.The journal of extra-corporeal technology · 2025Article
- ECMO in Refractory Septic Shock: Patient Selection, Timing and Hemodynamic Targets.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Optimising Meropenem and Piperacillin Dosing in Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Without Renal Dysfunction (MEPIMEX).Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Risk factors and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections among patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the ICU: a cohort study from China.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases: A Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is a feasible option for patients with pregnancy-associated diagnoses who require mechanical circulatory support.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Characterization of pathogenic bacterial distribution in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-related nosocomial infections and the prognostic value of early inflammatory biomarkers for infection survival.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Autoptic Findings in Patients Treated with (VA-ECMO) after Cardiac Arrest.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cardiopulmonary bypass and VA-ECMO induced immune dysfunction: common features and differences, a narrative review.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
- Effectiveness of a Game-Based Mobile App for Educating Intensive Critical Care Specialist Nurses in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Pipeline Preflushing: Quasi-Experimental Trial.JMIR serious games · 2023Article
- Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Secondary to Respiratory or Cardiac Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Therapeutic advances in pulmonary and critical care medicineArticle
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Abstract
The use of venoarterial (VA) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (ECMO) in patients admitted to cardiac intensive care units (CICU) has increased. Data regarding infections in this population are scarce. In this retrospective study, we analyzed the risk factors, outcome, and predictors of in-hospital mortality due to nosocomial infections in patients with ECMO admitted to a single coronary intensive care unit between July 2013 and March 2019 treated with VA-ECMO for >48 h. From 69 patients treated with VA-ECMO >48 h, (median age 58 years), 29 (42.0%) patients developed 34 episodes of infections with an infection rate of 0.92/1000 ECMO days. The most frequent were ventilator-associated pneumonia (57.6%), tracheobronchitis (9.1%), bloodstream infections (9.1%), skin and soft tissue infections (9.1%), and cytomegalovirus reactivation (9.1%). In-hospital mortality was 47.8%, but no association with nosocomial infections was found (
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