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. 2021 Nov 29;25(1):413.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03831-y.

Complete countrywide mortality in COVID patients receiving ECMO in Germany throughout the first three waves of the pandemic

Christian Karagiannidis  1 , Arthur S Slutsky  2 , Thomas Bein  3 , Wolfram Windisch  4 , Steffen Weber-Carstens  5 , Daniel Brodie  6
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Complete countrywide mortality in COVID patients receiving ECMO in Germany throughout the first three waves of the pandemic

Christian Karagiannidis et al. Crit Care. .
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Conflict of interest statement

CK reports personal fees from Maquet, personal fees from Xenios, personal fees from Bayer, non-financial support from Speaker of the German register of ICUs, grants from the German Ministry of Research and Education, during the conduct of the study. TB, WW and SWC have nothing to disclose. AS reports personal fees from Baxter and Xenios in relation to consulting with respect to ECMO. DB receives research support from ALung Technologies. He has been on the medical advisory boards for Baxter, Abiomed, Xenios and Cellenkos.

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Weekly patient number of patients being treated with VV-ECMO in Germany for COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure between March 2020 and May 2021. Mean mortality is given for all three waves with mean and standard deviation
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