Forty-Eight Hour Lactate Normalization Predicts Favorable Neurologic Recovery and Survival in Venoarterial ECMO for Cardiogenic Shock.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for cardiogenic shock (CS) is associated with high mortality and poor neurological outcomes. Dynamic assessment of metabolic recovery, reflected by lactate normalization, may offer additional prognostic value compared with static severity indices. We retrospectively analyzed 6...