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Figure 1. Number of patients who died and survived to hospital
discharge according to the duration of postcardiotomy VA-ECMO.
Figure 2. Medial lactate level at the start, during and at
weaning from VA-ECMO. P -values are from Kruskal-Wallis’ test.
Data is from 409 patients with complete data on arterial lactate.
Figure 3. Risk-adjusted hospital and on VA-ECMO mortality rates
according to the duration of postcardiotomy VA-ECMO.
Supplemental Table I. STROBE Statement for observational
studies.