Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Sep 2014
Observational StudyImpact of fluid balance on outcome of adult patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
To assess the relationship between early daily fluid balance (FB) and 90-day outcome in adult patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). ⋯ Positive FB at ECMO day 3 is an independent predictor of 90-day mortality. Further interventional studies aimed at testing the value of strategy of tight control of FB during the early ECMO period are now warranted.