Publications

Highlighted publications

They Brought the Hospital to Me.
Hugh N Burrill.
The Medical Journal of Australia. 2026 Sep;224(9):e70281. doi: 10.5694/mja2.70281.

Written from Hugh's personal experience of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest thanks to an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) clinical research trial. "I wrote this article as thanks to all those who were instrumental in saving my life, but also in the hope that ECPR will be further developed to become an accepted emergency strategy to save the life of others." Hugh gives a special thank you to his wife Meridee for all her care in his recovery after the cardiac arrest. As a person with lived experience, Hugh now spends time advocating for the needs of patients and their families at the ANZIC-RC including within The EXCEL Registry.

Incidence of death or disability at 6 months after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in Australia: a prospective, multicentre, registry-embedded cohort study.
Hodgson CL, Higgins AM, Bailey MJ, Anderson S, Bernard S, Fulcher BJ, Koe D, Linke NJ, Board JV, Brodie D, Buhr H, Burrell AJC, Cooper DJ, Fan E, Fraser JF, Gattas DJ, Hopper IK, Huckson S, Litton E, McGuinness SP, Nair P, Orford N, Parke RL, Pellegrino VA, Pilcher DV, Sheldrake J, Reddi BAJ, Stub D, Trapani TV, Udy AA, Serpa Neto A; EXCEL Study Investigators on behalf of the International ECMO Network and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group.
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 2022 Nov;10(11):1038-1048. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00248-X.

ECMO is used for patients who are unlikely to survive with other forms of life support (such as mechanical ventilation or medication to support cardiac function). This study aimed to determine the incidence of death or disability at 6-months after ECMO. We found that death and disability was common, with one third of patients without disability at 6-months.

A Core Outcome Set for Research in Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
Hodgson CL, Fulcher B, Mariajoseph FP, Burrell AJC, Pellegrino V, Brodie D, Fan E; SCOPE Study Investigators on behalf of the International ECMO Network.
Critical Care Medicine. 2021 Dec 1;49(12):e1252-e1254. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005110.

This international Delphi study identified core outcomes and measurement tools for research involving ECMO. It will allow international comparison of studies of patients receiving ECMO using the same definitions.

Full list

1. Linke, N. J., Fulcher, B. J., Engeler, D. M., et al. (2020). A survey of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation practice in 23 Australian adult intensive care units. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 22(2), 166–170. doi: 10.51893/2020.2.sur7.

2. Fulcher, B. J., Nicholson, A. J., Linke, N. J., Berkovic, D., Hodgson, C. L., et al. (2020). The perceived barriers and facilitators to implementation of ECMO services in acute hospitals. Intensive Care Medicine, 46(11), 2115–2117. doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06187-z.

3. ECMO-PT Study Investigators, & International ECMO Network. (2020). Early mobilisation during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was safe and feasible: A pilot randomised controlled trial. Intensive Care Medicine, 46(5), 1057–1059. doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-05994-8.

4. Hodgson, C. L., Burrell, A. J. C., Engeler, D. M., Pellegrino, V. A., Brodie, D., Fan, E., et al. (2019). Core outcome measures for research in critically ill patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory or cardiac failure: An international, multidisciplinary, modified Delphi consensus study. Critical Care Medicine, 47(11), 1557–1563. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003954.

5. Hodgson, C. L., Fulcher, B., Mariajoseph, F. P., Burrell, A., Pellegrino, V., Brodie, D., Fan, E., & SCOPE Study Investigators on behalf of the International ECMO Network. (2021). A core outcome set for research in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Critical Care Medicine, 49(12), e1252–e1254. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005110.

6. Thiara, S., Hodgson, C. L., et al. (2022). Association of respiratory parameters at venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation liberation with duration of mechanical ventilation and ICU length of stay: A prospective cohort study. Critical Care Explorations, 4(5), e0689. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000689.

7. Hodgson, C. L., Higgins, A. M., Bailey, M. J., et al. (2022). Incidence of death or disability at 6 months after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in Australia: A prospective, multicentre, registry-embedded cohort study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 10(11), 1038–1048. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00248-X.

8. Joyce, P. R., Hodgson, C. L., Bellomo, R., et al. (2023). Smaller return cannula in venoarterial ECMO does not increase hemolysis: A single-center, cohort study. ASAIO Journal. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002027.

9. Ross, P., Watterson, J., et al. (2023). Nursing workforce, education, and training challenges to implementing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation services in Australian intensive care units: A qualitative substudy. Australian Critical Care, 36(1), 114–118. doi: 10.1016/j.aucc.2021.12.003.

10. Stephens, A. F., Šeman, M., Diehl, A., Pilcher, D., Barbaro, R. P., Brodie, D., Pellegrino, V., Kaye, D. M., Gregory, S. D., & Hodgson, C. on behalf of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Member Centres. (2023). ECMO PAL: Using deep neural networks for survival prediction in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Intensive Care Medicine,49, 1090–1099. doi: 10.1007/s00134-023-07157-x.

11. Serpa Neto, A., Higgins, L., Lorenzi, E., Berry, L., Ryan, E., Heritier, S., Anderson, S., Orosz, J., Burrell, A., McQuilten, Z.,Nair, P., et al. (2024). Development of a new longitudinal ordinal outcome for clinical trials in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 211(7). doi: 10.1164/rccm.202408-1582OC.

12. Burrell, A., Bailey, M. J., et al. (2024). Conservative or liberal oxygen targets in patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Intensive Care Medicine, 50(9), 1470–1483. doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07564-8.

13. Pound G, Jones D, Eastwood GM, Paul E, Neto AS, Hodgson CL. Long-term outcomes of patients who received extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) following in-hospital cardiac arrest: Analysis of EXCEL registry data. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 2024 Nov 21;26(4):279-285. doi: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2024.08.008.

14. Ertugrul, A. D., Serpa Neto, A., Fulcher, B. J., et al. (2024). Hospital-level volume in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cases and death or disability at 6 months. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 26(4), 262–270. doi: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2024.08.006.

15. Nanjayya, V. B., Hodgson, C. L., et al. (2025). Long-term health-related quality of life in survivors of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation compared to conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A cohort study using Australian and New Zealand Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Registry and the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry. Resuscitation, 210, 110601. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110601.

16. Serpa Neto, A., Higgins, A. M., Bailey, M. J., et al. (2025). Long-term functional outcomes in the first 12 months after VA-ECMO in adult patients: A prospective, multicenter study. Circulation: Heart Failure, 18, 6, (e013176), (2025). doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.012476.

17. Batchelor, R. J., Hodgson, C. L., Lankaputhra, M., Burrell, A., Orosz, J., Coull, J., Pellegrino, V., Antsey, J., Lefkovits, J., Taylor, A. J., Kaye, D. M., Stub, D., et al. (2026). Sex differences in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation utilisation and clinical outcomes in Australia. Journal of Critical Care, 93, (155473). doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2026.155473.

18. Brown, A., Dennis, M., Rattan, N., Nanjayya, V., Burrell, A., Serpa Neto, A., Hodgson, C. L., et al. (2026). Neurologic complications during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and their implications for 6-month patient-centered outcomes. Critical Care Medicine. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006938.

19. Wilcox, K. R., Meredith, L., Burrell, A., Fulcher, B., Hodgson, C. L., Higgins, A. M., et al. (2026). Costs and complications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in Australia and New Zealand. Critical Care, 30, 282. doi: 10.1186/s13054-026-06086-7.

20. Wilson, W. Y., Denny, K. J., McCullough, J. P. A., Hodgson, C. L., Fulcher, B. J., Winearls, J. R., et al. (2026). The effect of initial rhythm on patient outcome in refractory cardiac arrest requiring extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A retrospective, multicentre registry cohort study. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 28, 100203. doi: 10.1016/j.ccrj.2026.100203.

21. Brown A, Dennis M, Rattan N, Nanjayya VB, Burrell A, Neto AS, et al. Death and new disability following bleeding complications during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. A prospective cohort study from the EXCEL registry. Journal of Critical Care. 2026;91:155308. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2025.155308.