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Complications

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ECMO has problems associated with clinical trials of efficacy:

  • the patient is unable to consent to or refuse treatment themselves - the provision of standard, recognised therapy is legally and ethically mandatory
  • innovative / experimental treatment is restricted by both legal and ethical regulations
  • it has always been compared with historical controls of conventional treatment, but the latter has improved

The following complications have yet to be confirmed to occur at increased frequency:

  • renal failure due to aortic thrombosis
  • severe oedema and bleeding from surgical sites
  • intraventricular and intracranial haemorrhage
  • neurological sequelae, e.g. sensorineural hearing loss

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