The impact of obesity on outcomes in patients receiving extracorporeal life support

Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) has been increasingly utilized to manage cardiac and pulmonary dysfunction. The impact of obesity on outcomes of ECLS is poorly defined. The purpose of the study was to compare in‐hospital mortality, resource use, complications, and readmissions in obese versus non‐obese patients receiving ECLS. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all adult ECLS patients with and without an obesity diagnosis using the...