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Comment
. 2023 Mar;11(3):215-217.
doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00367-8. Epub 2022 Oct 11.

Patients receiving ECMO are special, but still only need a haemoglobin concentration of 7g/dL

Joseph E Tonna  1
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Patients receiving ECMO are special, but still only need a haemoglobin concentration of 7g/dL

Joseph E Tonna. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Mar.
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Conflict of interest statement

I am the Chair-elect of the Registry Committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. I am supported by a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (K23 HL141596). None of the funding sources were involved in the preparation of this Comment.

Comment on

  • Transfusion practice in patients receiving VV ECMO (PROTECMO): a prospective, multicentre, observational study.
    Martucci G, Schmidt M, Agerstrand C, Tabatabai A, Tuzzolino F, Giani M, Ramanan R, Grasselli G, Schellongowski P, Riera J, Hssain AA, Duburcq T, Gorjup V, De Pascale G, Buabbas S, Gannon WD, Jeon K, Trethowan B, Fanelli V, Chico JI, Balik M, Broman LM, Pesenti A, Combes A, Ranieri MV, Foti G, Buscher H, Tanaka K, Lorusso R, Arcadipane A, Brodie D; International ECMO Network (ECMONet). Martucci G, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2023 Mar;11(3):245-255. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(22)00353-8. Epub 2022 Oct 11. Lancet Respir Med. 2023. PMID: 36240836

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