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. 2022 Jul;48(7):979-980.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06732-y. Epub 2022 May 17.

The need to define "who" rather than "if" for ECMO in COVID-19

Stephen Whebell  1 , Joe Zhang  2   3 , Rebecca Lewis  4 , Michael Berry  5 , Stephane Ledot  5 , Andrew Retter  4 , Luigi Camporota  4   6
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The need to define "who" rather than "if" for ECMO in COVID-19

Stephen Whebell et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement

This study received no direct funding. JZ receives funding from the Wellcome Trust (203928/Z/16/Z) and acknowledges support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre based at Imperial College NHS Trust and Imperial College London. The other authors have no financial or non-financial competing interests to declare.

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