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Table 4 The comparison of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation uses between different age groups

From: Gender and age disparity in the initiation of life-supporting treatments: a population-based cohort study

 

Case

Incidence

Younger than 30 d/oa

31 d/o— 17 y/ob

18 y/o— 64 y/o

Older than 65 years

Younger than 30 d/o

31 d/o— 17 y/o

18 y/o— 64 y/o

Older than 65 years

Year

N

N

N

N

AIRc

AIR

AIR

AIR

2000

8

25

142

82

330.98

4.47

10.12

44.39

2001

6

35

138

94

294.36

6.33

9.51

50.34

2002

8

35

155

113

428.51

6.41

10.55

58.77

2003

15

42

261

141

844.33

7.80

17.59

71.31

2004

7

49

230

146

425.53

9.33

15.25

72.11

2005

7

50

239

96

430.93

9.74

15.55

46.01

2006

12

44

215

142

752.59

8.53

13.81

66.09

2007

19

63

383

201

1197.19

12.58

24.30

91.18

2008

8

102

451

296

523.99

20.77

28.20

131.55

2009

14

81

566

274

930.88

17.11

35.17

119.39

2010

11

79

644

370

887.44

17.13

39.58

157.39

  1. ad/o denotes for “days old”
  2. by/o denotes for “years old”
  3. cAIR denotes for “age-specific gender-adjusted incidence rate of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation,” which means the annual number of ECMO cases per million person-year adjusting for the gender distribution in 2000
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