EXCEL – The Australian and New Zealand extracorporeal membrane oxygenation registry

Academic Lead:Professor Carol Hodgson
Head, Division of Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies
Clinical Lead: Associate Professor Vincent Pellegrino
Senior Intensivist, Alfred Health and Victorian ECMO Service (VECMOS)
Registry contact:Patricia Alliegro, Project Manager
Phone: +61 3 9903 0930
Email: patricia.alliegro@monash.edu
Purpose / aims: To generate a binational multidisciplinary network of integrated care for patients requiring ECMO to monitor long term outcomes and identify best practice. EXCEL uses the Theoretical Domains Framework to identify evidence-practice gaps and explore barriers and enablers to tailor implementation of new and improved ECMO policy.
Population captured: Any patient admitted to an adult hospital who undergoes ECMO intervention within Australia and New Zealand.
Outcomes collected:

In-hospital outcomes:

  • safety events / adverse events
  • retrieval status, timing, safety events and outcomes
  • cannulation type, timing, operator
  • equipment and device utilisation
  • mechanical ventilation and concomitant interventions
  • survival
  • healthcare utilisation and costing

Six and 12 month outcomes:

  • disability free survival
  • activities of daily living
  • health related quality of life
  • anxiety and depression
  • cognitive function
  • return to work
Year established: 2018
Funding sources:
  • Alfred Health
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Heart Foundation
  • Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
  • The Prince Charles Hospital
  • University Hospital Geelong
  • The International ECMO Network
Website:monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/excel