Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is an effective therapy to improve outcomes for children who experience cardiopulmonary arrest. Survival after ECLS varies between 60% and 75%. For ECPR survival is lower, with 40% to 50% of children surviving ECPR. After ECPR good neurological outcomes are seen in 40% to 60% of children. This contrasts with adult patients where neurological outcomes after ECPR are poor. Given these findings the American Heart Association has included ECPR in their 2015 guidelines for children who experience an in hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA).
4. ECMO initiation?
Get team to TPCH
Take child to LCCH
TPCH to cannulate
Transfer – knowing that child will arrest
ECMO ready at LCCH
During transfer PEA arrest
Cannulation on arrival: trans-sternal cannulation
5. Diagnostic uncertainty
During cannulation large coronaries noted
?Kawasaki
?ALCAPA
CT angiogram directly after cannulation
6.
7. Aurora
3 Days on ECMO
IVIG and hydrocortisone
Transferred to ward
Home and thriving
8. What’s new in paediatric
ECPR?
What’s old in paediatric
ECPR?
11. ECPR in Children
Is it just a very specialised field?
Is there substantial progress?
IHCA vs OHCA
Questions remain
What factors impact outcome after ECPR
Percutaneous vs surgical vs hybrid cannulation
Post resuscitation care: the big unknown
Temperature
BP goals
Oxygenation goals
Radical scavengers?
12. ECPR/ECMO in Children - a
highly specialized field?
Melbourne Sydney Brisbane
Auckland Perth
Indications vary within
centres:
Cardiac only vs
Any child with arrest in
hospital
Annual data
Melbourne: ~50 runs
Brisbane: ~35 runs
Sydney: ~20 runs
Perth: ~10 runs (no ECPR)
Auckland
13. Study n Cardiac Survival Mortality predictors
Alsoufi
Toronto 2007
80 91% 34% None
Thiagarajan
ELSO 2007
682 73% 38% Non-cardiac diagnosis, pre-ECMO acidosis
Post-ECMO organ dysfunction, CPR, acidosis
Raymond
AHA registry 2010
199 84% 44% Non-cardiac diagnosis
Pre-ECMO Renal dysfunction
Kane
Boston 2010
172 100% 51% Additional diagnosis
Post-ECMO acidosis, organ injury, CPR
Morris
CHOP 2011
64 67% 33% Non-cardiac diagnosis
Sivarajan
Melbourne 2011
61 100% 38% CPR duration
Huang
Taipeh 2012
54 100% 46% Cardiac vs non cardiac no difference, higher lactate
predictive
Philip
Houston 2014
59 100% 46% Pre-ECMO renal dysfunction, CPR duration, peripheral
cannulation
Mattke
Brisbane 2015
28 68% 68% CPR duration, higher pH and lower serum HCO3
Kramer
Berlin 2018
72 85% 36% Arrest location (OHCA and other than PICU), lactate,
RRT, NOT duration
16. Study n Cardiac Survival Mortality predictors
Alsoufi
Toronto 2007
80 91% 34% None
Thiagarajan
ELSO 2007
682 73% 38% Non-cardiac diagnosis, pre-ECMO acidosis
Post-ECMO organ dysfunction, CPR, acidosis
Raymond
AHA registry 2010
199 84% 44% Non-cardiac diagnosis
Pre-ECMO Renal dysfunction
Kane
Boston 2010
172 100% 51% Additional diagnosis
Post-ECMO acidosis, organ injury, CPR
Morris
CHOP 2011
64 67% 33% Non-cardiac diagnosis
Sivarajan
Melbourne 2011
61 100% 38% CPR duration
Philip
Houston 2014
59 100% 46% Pre-ECMO renal dysfunction, CPR duration, peripheral
cannulation
Mattke
Brisbane 2015
28 68% 68% CPR duration, higher pH and serum HCO3
17. Factors influencing outcome
after ECPR in children
Non-modifiable
Cardiac vs non-cardiac
Cannulation under CPR
pH
Lactate
HCO3 levels
Modifiable
Duration of CPR
Type of cannulation (central vs neck)
Post resuscitation care
18. Sivarajan, Int Care Med 2011; Huang Crit Care Med 2008; Morris PCCM 2004
Duration of CPR
22. Lasa Circulation 2015
Does ECPR have a benefit?
CPR registry analysis
3,700 paediatric arrests over 12 years
23. Location and duration of
arrest
IHCA established
OHCA – very few centres only
Kramer et al 2018: 6 OHCA, survival for whole group
36%
Median duration of CPR 59 min
24. We have flow: What now?
Post resuscitation care
The big unknown
Temperature – THAPCA trial
Oxygenation targets?
Flow targets
Blood brain barrier
26. Be prepared
Should every child admitted to
hospital have a ECPR eligibility
criteria filled in?
27. “ECMO used to support CPR rescued
one third of patients in whom death
was otherwise certain.”
Paediatric Resusictation ECMO
15%
11%
8%
2%
5%
59%
Congenital heart disease
Myocarditis/cardiomyopathy
Respiratory failure
Sepsis
Trauma
Miscellaneous
Thiagarajan, Circulation 2007
682 children with E-CPR 1992 – 2005
Who will you encounter?
28. How to improve systems?
Practicalities
Priming of the pump: easy in adults, difficult for small children
Central cannulation for all patients?
Conversion from central to neck/groin cannulation has high air embolism risk
Percutanous cannulation?
31. Cannulation technique
Percutaneous cannulation unusual in paediatrics
Paed ECPR even more difficult
If peripheral cannulation during ECPR, and reluctant to open
chest VA-VV is option
32. Cannulation setup:
Transsternal
Trans-sternal vs neck or groin cannulation
Sepsis with severe ARDS
Complications with differential saturation and suboptimal DO2
with femoral cannulation
VA via groin vessels, combined with Avalon VV circuit in neck
34. ECPR/ECMO in Children
Should ECPR be offered in more centres?
Canada: cannulation in centres that do not have ECMO
program, with subsequent ECMO transport
ECPR hugely more difficult than elective/semi-elective
cannulation
Practicalities?
Surgeons to commit to cannulation in “peripheral” centres
Practicalities of transport on ECMO
35. Conclusions
ECPR is complex, and even more so in children
Surgeon/intensivist interaction vital
Cannulation site not a given
High quality CPR seems more important than absolute CPR time?!?
Its all about the framework – if the service is not equipped enough,
outcomes will be poor
IHCA established indication, OHCA not
Once on think about coming off – does resting the heart exist?