Neurologic complications in patients receiving aortic versus subclavian versus femoral arterial cannulation
... for post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support
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Data from the Post-Cardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support (PELS) database was used to investigate whether the type of arterial cannulation used during cardiotomy has an impact on the incidence of neurological adverse events. In 1897 patients from 34 different hospitals, either aortic, subclavian/axillary or femoral cannulation was used during cardiac surgery. The incidence of ischaemic stroke, cerebral haemorrhage or cerebral oedema was compared between these three groups between 2000 and 2020. The results of the retrospective analysis were published open access in the journal ‘Critical Care’. Prim. Assoc. Prof. Dr Dominik Wiedemann, Head of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at KL University Hospital in St. Pölten, is co-author of the study.
PELS Investigators & Wiedemann, D 2024, 'Neurologic complications in patients receiving aortic versus subclavian versus femoral arterial cannulation for post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support: results of the PELS observational multicenter study', Critical Care, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 265. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-024-05047-2
Prim. Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Dominik Wiedemann
Division of Cardiosurgery (University Hospital St. Pölten)
