ECMO for severe ARDS associated with COVID-19: now we know we can, but should we?

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¹ Adult Intensive Care Services, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD 4032, Australia; Critical Care Research Group and Centre of Research Excellence for Advanced Cardio-respiratory Therapies Improving OrgaN Support, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Brisbane and Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: kiran.shekar@health.qld.gov.au.
² Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA; Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

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Kiran Shekar et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;8(11):1066-1068.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30357-X. Epub 2020 Aug 13.

¹ Adult Intensive Care Services, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, QLD 4032, Australia; Critical Care Research Group and Centre of Research Excellence for Advanced Cardio-respiratory Therapies Improving OrgaN Support, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Brisbane and Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: kiran.shekar@health.qld.gov.au.
² Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA; Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study.
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