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Comment
. 2022 Jul;48(7):975-976.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06710-4. Epub 2022 Apr 26.

Where is the imperceptible difference?

Pedro D Wendel-Garcia  1 , Benjamin Seeliger  2 , Klaus Stahl  3 , Christian Bode  4 , Sascha David  5
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Where is the imperceptible difference?

Pedro D Wendel-Garcia et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul.
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Fig. 1
Directed acyclic graph depicting the causal effect of ECMO on patient outcome and the causal effect modulation by observed and unobserved confounders
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  • The need to define "who" rather than "if" for ECMO in COVID-19.
    Whebell S, Zhang J, Lewis R, Berry M, Ledot S, Retter A, Camporota L. Whebell S, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul;48(7):979-980. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06732-y. Epub 2022 May 17. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 35579687 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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