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Comment
. 2021 Aug 9;25(1):285.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03702-6.

Letter to the editor regarding Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Dominik Johannes Hoechter  1 , Andrea Sabine Becker-Pennrich  2   3 , Benjamin Peter Geisler  3   4 , Bernhard Zwissler  2   5 , Michael Irlbeck  2 , Kollengode Ramanathan  6   7 , Kiran Shekar  8   9   10   11 , Ryan Ruiyang Ling  12 , Ryan Barbaro  13   14 , Graeme MacLaren  12   15 , Eddy Fan  16 , Daniel Brodie  17   18
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Letter to the editor regarding Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Dominik Johannes Hoechter et al. Crit Care. .
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Conflict of interest statement

DB receives research support from ALung Technologies. He has been on the medical advisory boards for Baxter, Abiomed, Xenios and Hemovent, and is the President-elect of ELSO. RPB receives research support unrelated to this project from National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute K12 HL138039 and R01 HL153519 and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R01 HD015434. He is the ELSO Registry Chair. EF reports personal fees from ALung Technologies, Baxter, Fresenius Medical Care, Getinge, and MC3 Cardiopulmonary outside the submitted work. He is the Chair of Research Committee for ELSO. GM reports being on the Board of Directors for ELSO. KR reports being on the Scientific Oversight Committee at the ELSO. KS and RRL have no competing interests to report.

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Forest plot showing the proportion of non-survivors among COVID-19 patients requiring ECMO treatment: top) omitting patients who still were on ECMO or not discharged from the hospital, bottom) omitting studies who reported on patients who still were on ECMO or not discharged from the hospital
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