Ultrasound is one of the most common procedures in the United States, with more than 140 million ultrasound procedures performed every year. 1 These procedures are highly variable, spanning many areas of medicine and involving different techniques, clinical environments or patient characteristics.
In our study, only a third of patients were alive without moderate-to-severe disability
at 6 months after initiation of ECMO. The finding that disability was common across
all areas of functioning points to the need for long-term, multidisciplinary care
and support for surviving patients who have had ECMO. Further studies are needed to
understand the 180-day and longer-term prognosis of patients with different diagnoses
receiving different modes of ECMO, which could have important implications for the
selection of patients for ECMO and management strategies in the ICU.
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