PMID- 27718412 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170922 LR - 20181202 IS - 1557-8615 (Electronic) IS - 0883-9441 (Linking) VI - 37 DP - 2017 Feb TI - Early fluid resuscitation and volume therapy in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. PG - 130-135 LID - S0883-9441(16)30546-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.09.017 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: For circulatory support, venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) is dependent on sufficient venous drainage ensured by fluid therapy. Volume overload however is linked to poor prognosis. This study therefore evaluates volume therapy in VA-ECMO. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We report data of a single center registry of all patients after VA-ECMO implantation treated between 2010 and 2015. RESULTS: A total of 195 patients were included in this registry with a medium age of 58.2 +/- 1.1 years, 71.8% were male. A positive fluid balance was detected in 94.7% at day 1 (day 2: 93.7%, day 3: 92.6%). Consistently, survivors had a lower fluid balance when compared to non-survivors (P < .001). Three hours post-implantation, patients above the 75th percentile had a hazard ratio of 6.03 when compared to average survival (P < .05). AUC at that time point was 0.726 as calculated by ROC. Patients below the 50th percentile (fluid balance below 8500 mL after 24 hours) had the best prognosis after VA-ECMO implantation (P < .001). CONCLUSIONS: Higher fluid balance was consistently linked to poor survival. We found no evidence to support a liberal fluid therapy in VA-ECMO patients, especially not the early after implantation. With a retrospective study, one cannot clarify if lower fluid balance might improve outcomes or represents a prognostic marker. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Staudacher, Dawid L AU - Staudacher DL AD - Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany. Electronic address: dawid.staudacher@universitaets-herzzentrum.de. FAU - Gold, Wolfgang AU - Gold W AD - Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany. FAU - Biever, Paul M AU - Biever PM AD - Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany. FAU - Bode, Christoph AU - Bode C AD - Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany. FAU - Wengenmayer, Tobias AU - Wengenmayer T AD - Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160927 PL - United States TA - J Crit Care JT - Journal of critical care JID - 8610642 SB - IM MH - Critical Care MH - *Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation MH - Female MH - *Fluid Therapy MH - Germany MH - Heart Failure/mortality/*therapy MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Prognosis MH - Registries MH - *Resuscitation MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Water-Electrolyte Balance OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation OT - Critically Ill OT - Prognosis OT - Sepsis OT - Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation OT - Water-electrolyte balance EDAT- 2016/10/09 06:00 MHDA- 2017/09/25 06:00 CRDT- 2016/10/09 06:00 PHST- 2016/06/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/08/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/09/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/10/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/09/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/10/09 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0883-9441(16)30546-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.09.017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Crit Care. 2017 Feb;37:130-135. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.09.017. Epub 2016 Sep 27.