Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory acute respiratory distress syndrome in severe malaria

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Characteristics of patients with malaria-related severe ARDS requiring ECMO

Patient	1	2	3
Age (years)	53	39	46
Gender	Male	Male	Female
Country of origin	Angola	Mozambique	Uganda
Plasmodium species	*P. falciparum*	*P. falciparum*	*P. vivax and P. ovale*
Clinical deterioration (days)
Symptoms to hospital admission	5	3	14
Hospital to ICU admission	2	3	4
ICU admission to ECMO	9	14	1
IMV to ECMO	8	11	1
Murray score	3.75	3.75	4.0
Before ECMO
Prone position	Yes	Yes	No
Nitric oxide	No	No	Yes
Renal replacement therapy	No	No	No
During ECMO
Prone position	No	No	No
Nitric oxide	No	No	No
Renal replacement therapy	Yes	No	No
APACHE II *	11	14	17
Mechanical ventilation (days)	48	25	17
ECMO (days)	40	7	10
ICU LOS (days)	49	46	23
ICU survival	NSurv	Surv	Surv
Hospital survival	NSurv	Surv	Surv

APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; LOS, length of stay; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; IMV, invasive mechanical ventilation; NSurv, non-survivor; Surv, survivor. * First day of ICU admission.

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