Therapeutic plasma exchange as a routine therapy in septic shock and as an experimental treatment for COVID-19: we are not sure

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¹ ICU Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann-Brugmann University Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtenplein, 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium. Patrick.Honore@CHU-Brugmann.be.
² ICU Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann-Brugmann University Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtenplein, 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium.

Comment

Patrick M Honore et al. Crit Care. 2020.

. 2020 May 15;24(1):226.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-02943-1.

¹ ICU Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann-Brugmann University Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtenplein, 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium. Patrick.Honore@CHU-Brugmann.be.
² ICU Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann-Brugmann University Hospital, Place Van Gehuchtenplein, 4, 1020, Brussels, Belgium.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare to have no competing interests.

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