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Editorial
. 2020 Aug 17;24(1):507.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03230-9.

ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic: when is it unjustified?

Darryl Abrams  1   2 , Roberto Lorusso  3 , Jean-Louis Vincent  4 , Daniel Brodie  5   6
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Editorial

ECMO during the COVID-19 pandemic: when is it unjustified?

Darryl Abrams et al. Crit Care. .
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Conflict of interest statement

RL reports personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from LivaNova, other from Eurosets, and other from PulseCath, outside the submitted work. DB reports fees to his university from ALung Technologies, personal fees from Baxter and anticipated fees from BREETHE and Xenios, and an unpaid association with Hemovent, outside the submitted work. DA and JVL have no competing interests to report.

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Potential curve of ECMO case volume during the COVID-19 pandemic. During surge conditions, ECMO usage will be variable (red dashed line), including the potential of being abandoned altogether. As the pandemic resolves and patient volume decreases, there may be increasing resource availability and ECMO use (blue arrow) or decreasing demand (green arrow)
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