Description
- INCLUSION CRITERIA
- In order to be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all of the following criteria:
- 1. Patients admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit at Boston Children's Hospital or Texas Children's Hospital with cardiac comorbidity, including congenital heart disease, myocarditis, cardiac arrhythmia, or rejection of a transplanted heart.
- 2. Patients are anticipated to be between birth to 18 years of age, although occasionally a patient over the age of 18 may be enrolled.
- 3. Patient experiencing a refractory cardiac arrest \>5 minutes and receiving ongoing CPR in the ICU.
- 4. The decision made by the clinical team to resuscitate from ongoing, refractory cardiac arrest using ECPR due to a lack of other available options.
- EXCLUSION CRITERIA
- Meeting any of the following criterion renders the patient ineligible for the trial:
- 1. Enrollment in the opt-out program.
- 2. Patients known to be pregnant.
- 3. Patients who are prisoners.
- 4. Prior ECPR episode during admission (whether or not they were enrolled in the trial).
- 5. Enrollment does not occur within 2 hours of the decision to resuscitate using ECPR.
- Note that ECMO cannulation without preceding CPR does not qualify as ECPR and such patients will not be included.
Ages Eligible for Study:
N/A to N/A (CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No