Survival - ECMO

Percent of Cardiac Patients on ECMO who survived until discharge

1985-2008

ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) is a highly complex treatment used for children who are severely ill. The ECMO machine temporarily acts as a patient's heart and lungs while he or she recovers from an underlying condition. During ECMO, the ECMO team removes a portion of the patient's blood through a tube and flows it through the ECMO machine, where it is enriched with oxygen and pumped back into the body.

Children's survival rate exceeds the ELSO average.

This measure uses data from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). ELSO is an international comprehensive comparative database of patients treated with ECMO. There are more than 120 active ECMO centers around the world.

This measure is updated annually.