Extracorporeal Life Support: The Next Step in Moderate to Severe ARDS—A Review and Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Figure 5

Adverse events: forest plots showing the subgroup pooled analysis of bleeding (a) and barotrauma/pneumothorax (b) for both VV-ECMO and VV-ECCO₂R. (a) Using a fixed-effects (FE) model: odds ratio (OR) = 2.93; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.84–4.68; I² = 37.06%; value for Q (PQ) = 0.16; (b) using a random-effects (RE) model: odds ratio (OR) = 2.38; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.84–6.75; I² = 68.20%; value for Q (PQ) = 0.04.

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